Spud or Chisel
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 Luster: Dull Broken: Yes Break location: Mid Element: Complete Shape/Form: Narrow Edge Modification: No flattened spatulate bit Working shape: Convex Manufacturing Notes: Edge is finely ground. Bit tapers gradually and there is no shoulder or neck separable from the poll. Surface modification: Ground Residue: Historically applied plaster or other. Use Trace: Working edge is assymetrical and assymetrical side is beveled, meaning that this has been RESHARPENED. Comments: Broken in mid-section, but break has been re-glued. Proximal end of poll is also broken, but longitudinally, and has been reconstructed using plaster and maybe paint. The patch is well matched to color, but a lacuna at one point shows the loose crumbly structure of the patching compound.
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
setName: label: See more items in
content: Anthropology
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: NMNH - Anthropology Dept.
identifier: label: Accession Number
content: 272249
label: USNM Number
content: A448671-0
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Celt/Chisel
physicalDescription: label: Length - Object
content: ca. 23.5 cm
label: Width - Object
content: ca. 2.17 cm
label: Thickness - Object
content: ca. 2.02 cm
label: Weight - Object
content: ca. 105.8 g
label: Proximal Stem Width
content: ca. 1.91 cm