Hammerstone (492a1-1)

Description

**Hammerstone (type VI)** Location: Hardaway site (31St4), Stanly County, North Carolina. Period: Unknown, likely Late Paleoindian to Middle Archaic (8500-5000 BC). Material: rhyolite. Dimensions: length, 74.3 mm; width, 73.6 mm; thickness, 62.4 mm. Notes: Catalog no. 492a1 (specimen 1), 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.