Halifax Side-Notched (619a162)

Description

**Halifax Side-Notched spear point** Location: Gaston site (31Hx7), Halifax County, North Carolina. Period: Middle Archaic (4000-3000 BC). Material: vein quartz. Dimensions: length, 49.0 mm; width, 19.0 mm; thickness, 10.0 mm. Catalog no. 619a162, 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 105. Model by Steve Davis.