disc;
tool/implement
- Museum number
- Am,S.506
- Description
-
Disc (?), implement (?) made of stone (flint).
- Curator's comments
- Flint Chips. A guide to Prehistoric Archaeology by Edward T Stevens. 1870.
pp445-446
"In the early part of Decmember 1868, some labourers, while engaged in levelling an extension of 6t Street in East St Louis (formerly Illinois Town), St Clare County, Illinios, came upon a deposit of Indian relics consisting of flint tools, all of the hoe and shovel type, and about a bushel of small fossil marine shells, partly pierced, close to which were several boulders of flint and greenstone, weighing from 15 to 30 lbs each, and many fragments of flint."
in the margin is the annotation S.506, S.507, S.508?
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1931
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,S.506
- Additional IDs
-
CDMS number: Am1931E1.506 (old CDMS no.)