Hammerstone (492a1-9)

Description

**Hammerstone (type I)** Location: Hardaway site (31St4), Stanly County, North Carolina. Period: Unknown, likely Late Paleoindian to Middle Archaic (8500-5000 BC). Material: quartz cobble. Dimensions: length, 66.0 mm; width, 60.8 mm; thickness, 46.5 mm. Notes: Catalog no. 492a1 (specimen 9), 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 68. Model by Alix Kozin.