Instead of guessing, download the current PDF from Skymaps.com and confirm it yourself...
December 2012
http://www.skymaps.com/skymaps/tesms1212.pdf
Print it out on A3 if you can. Hold it over your head in the appropriate direction and see if you can identify the constellation Orion and Taurus. From there, you should be able to figure out if you are looking at M45 (Pleiades Cluster). The advantage of Skymap is that it is so basic that only easy naked eye objects are on it.
Also, you state you can see a large number of stars... I assume you are using binoculars or a telescope?