Polished Celt
date: label: Accession Date
content: 30 Dec 1966
name: label: Collector
content: Richard K. Meyer
label: Donor Name
content: Richard K. Meyer
label: Site Name
content: Craig Mound
notes: label: Notes
content: Style: Elongate - small Luster: LS1 Element: Complete Shape/Form: Rectangular Working Shape: Convex Edge Modification: Ground Manufacturing Notes: Pecked leaving a rough surface over the entire proximal portion of the piece. Bit is formed by grinding down the dorsal and ventral surfaces so point they meet at a 72° angle. Cross section is flattened ovoid. Use Trace: Bit is not entirely symmetrical, as though one side was ground down a bit further. There is very slight edge damage (4 scars evenly distrib on both faces) which is not continous. Deepest scar is .27cm deep. Comments: The pecked surface in conjunction w/ the ground surface suggests this may be unfinished. Dr. James A. Brown (The Artifacts. Second Part of the Third Annual Report of Caddoan Archaeology, 1976:185) mentions unfinished celts which are partially ground. Although small, it falls within the length category given in Dr. James A. Brown (1976:181) where he notes the shortest at 8.1 cm. Is this Smoky Hill jasper? Raw material identification done by A. Segovia of U of MD is chalcedony. Not like any chalcedony I ever saw. Part record 1 of 2
label: Record Last Modified
content: 1 Oct 2015
label: Site Number
content: 34LF40
label: Specimen Count
content: 1
place: label: Place
content: Spiro, Le Flore County, Oklahoma, United States, North America
topic: label: Topic
content: Archaeology
culture: label: Culture
content: Prehistoric
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content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448676-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Celt
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 9.05 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 2.9 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 2.7 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 131.2 g
label: Proximal Stem Width
content: ca. 3 cm
label: Distal Stem Width
content: ca. 3.16 cm
label: Stem Length
content: ca. 7.35 cm