Pestles, Axes, Adzes, and other tools

Object/Artifact

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Jefferson County Museum

Name/Title

Pestles, Axes, Adzes, and other tools

Entry/Object ID

1115

Description

1115a: Broken mano or pestle (North America, Transitional Period) 1115b: Hammerstone, used to make points (North America, Archaic Period) [On Exhibit: Case 47] 1115c: 3 disks, possibly game pieces (North America, Transitional Period) 1115d: 1 nutting stone (North America, Archaic Period) 1115e: 2 ground stone grooved axes (North America, Transitional Period) 1115f: 2 stone game balls - One sandstone, one basalt (North America, Woodland Period) 1115g: 3/4 grooved ax (North America, Woodland Period) 1115h: 1 hoe (Licking Creek/Potomac River, MD, Woodland Period) 1115i: 1 large maul (North America, Woodland Period) 1115j: 1 flint drill (Flint Ridge, OH, Woodland Period) [On Exhibit: Case 47] 1115k: 1 adz (Highland County, OH, Woodland Period) 1115l: 1 fishing net weight (California, Woodland Period) 1115m: 1 plummet (North America, Woodland Period) 1115n: 5 ground stone celts (North America, Woodland Period) 1115o: one knife made with stone blade fixed to bone handle with leather. Bottom of handle is decorated four pieces of bone hanging from leather thong, possibly 18th or early 19th century. [LOCATION: SR2/FF1/D1]

Acquisition

Accession

79

Source or Donor

Read, Eleanor Perry

Acquisition Method

Gift

Material

Bone, Stone