AMNH T/285

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

T/285

Date Studied

9/20/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Palmer, Hampshire County, Massachusetts. Donor James Terry, acquired by him on June 3rd, 1875.

Color

Light greenish gray with grayish black elements

Width (cm)

14.4

Height (cm)

6.5

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

1.4

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

1.9

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.1

Weight (g)

115.08

Notes

This bannerstone was broken at the spine either because the stone is weakest at the thin surface of the spine or because it was intentionally broken at the spine as is common with bannerstones. Both pieces are intact and have been glued together. There is a large chip at the bottom of the stone at the perforation. Published in Knoblock (1939) Pl. 214, no. 9.

Date

6000-1000 BCE

Rights

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License

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Citation

“AMNH T/285,” FIT Archaic Bannerstone Project, accessed April 20, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/121.

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