Hammerstone (492a1-5)

Description

**Hammerstone (type VII)** Location: Hardaway site (31St4), Stanly County, North Carolina. Period: Unknown, likely Late Paleoindian to Middle Archaic (8500-5000 BC). Material: rhyolite. Dimensions: length, 73.7 mm; width, 58.4 mm; thickness, 23.8 mm. Notes: Catalog no. 492a1 (specimen 5), 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 Chris LaMack.