160 Unusual Things to See in Ontario ~ Southwold Earthworks

Southwold Earthworks National Historic Site

Walk where Canada’s earliest inhabitants did and imagine the Attiwandaron longhouses and palisade walls that once stood proudly at Southwold Earthworks National Historic Site. Close your eyes and imagine a rare fortified village of 800-900 Attiwandaron, also known as the Neutral Iroquois, who inhabited Southwold from 1500 to 1650 AD.

Directions . . . 

The Southwold Earthworks is the remains of a pre-contact village site of the Neutral people, occupied about AD 1450 to 1550. The entrance to the site is located on Iona Road, approximately three kilometres south of Iona, Ontario, Canada. A double oval ring of raised earthworks surrounds the remains of the village. 

Address: 7930 Iona Rd, Fingal, ON N0L 1P0

Phone: (905) 468-6614