Hammerstone (492a1-3)

Description

**Hammerstone (type VI)** Location: Hardaway site (31St4), Stanly County, North Carolina. Period: Unknown, likely Late Paleoindian to Middle Archaic (8500-5000 BC). Material: argillite. Dimensions: length, 55.9 mm; width, 46.5 mm; thickness, 44.4 mm. Notes: Catalog no. 492a1 (specimen 3), North Carolina Archaeological Collection, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Illustrated in *The Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedmont,* by Joffre L. Coe, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society vol. 54, pt. 5, 1964, Figure 69. Model by Chris LaMack.