blade;
preform
- Museum number
- Am,S.721.a-b
- Description
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Two Hopewell cache blades or preforms elongated and triangular in outline, made of a dark grey brown chert.
- Production date
- 200BC-500
- Dimensions
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Height: 9.60 centimetres (S.24)
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Height: 8.30 centimetres (S.25)
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Width: 4.40 centimetres (S.24)
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Width: 3.40 centimetres (S.25)
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Depth: 0.90 centimetres (S.24)
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Depth: 0.80 centimetres (S.25)
- Curator's comments
- Excavated by Squier and Davis during the 1840s, these points were recovered from Mound 3.
- Location
- Not on display
- Acquisition date
- 1931
- Department
- Africa, Oceania and the Americas
- Registration number
- Am,S.721.a-b
- Additional IDs
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CDMS number: Am1931E1.721a-b (old CDMS no.)
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: S.24 (Davis' catalogue number)
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Previous owner/ex-collection number: S.25 (Davis' catalogue number)