Engraved Slate (492a24-4)

Description

**Engraved slate** Location: Hardaway site (31St4), Stanly County, North Carolina. Period: Unknown, likely Late Paleoindian to Middle Archaic (8500-5000 BC). Material: slate. Dimensions: length, 105.9 mm; width, 42.4 mm; thickness, 20.9 mm. Notes: Catalog no. 492a24 (specimen 4), 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 71. Model by Abigail Gancz.