OHC A 173/000024.001

About this Bannerstone

Collection

Ohio History Connection

BA#

103

Catalog or Accession #

A 173/000024.001

Date Studied

06/20/2023

Provenance/Provenience

Ross County, Ohio. Collected by Charles W. McGinnis prior to 1895. Purchased by the OHC from his wife and son after his passing on June 21, 1917.

Location

Other

Color

Light olive gray with dark greenish gray banding

Width (cm)

10.7

Height (cm)

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

1.5

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

2.3

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.5

Weight (g)

127.6

Notes

This Curved Pick bannerstone is finely sculpted and polished with the concentric circles of the banding carefully centered in the carved composition. A 173/24.001 is written in black on the inner curved edge. 173/22 is written in black on one side with remnants of glue from installation inside the perforation and along the side of the stone. Similar to Knoblock p.495, No. 10.

Date

6000-1000 BCE

Rights

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

These images may be downloaded and used freely for teaching and personal use. Include the credit line "© Anna Blume, 2023, Courtesy of the Ohio History Connection" along with the object's Catalog Number. Publishing of images is permitted with additional permission from the OHC. For additional publishing questions, contact [email protected].

Citation

“OHC A 173/000024.001,” FIT Bannerstone Project, accessed December 26, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/260.

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