Engraved Shell Gorget (2342a3399)

Description

**Engraved shell gorget** Location: Hairston site (31Sk1), Stokes County, North Carolina. Period: Late Woodland (AD 1500-1600). Material: marine shell. Dimensions: length, 56.8 mm; width, 52.5 mm; thickness, 3.2 mm. Notes: Catalog no. 2342a3399, North Carolina Archaeological Collection, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. llustrated in *Time Before History: The Archaeology of North Carolina,* by H. Trawick Ward and R. P. Stephen Davis, Jr., University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, 1999, Figure 4.18. Model by Steve Davis.