OHC A 5752/001274

About this Bannerstone

Collection

Ohio History Connection

BA#

116

Catalog or Accession #

A 5752/001274

Date Studied

06/14/2023

Provenance/Provenience

Hancock County, Ohio. From the Eugene R. and Cartha M. Franks Collection. Donated to the OHC.

Location

Other

Color

Light bluish gray with dark greenish gray banding with off-white inclusions

Width (cm)

4.5

Height (cm)

7.0

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

n/a

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

n/a

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.1

Weight (g)

26.2

Notes

This Double-Notched Butterfly originally was miniature sized, similar to AMNH DM/328. It appears to have broken in the archaic period at the perforation where it is most fragile. A hole was drilled to the left of the perforation ridge, a common practice in the archaic period so that the stone could be reused, possibly as a net weight. The surface of this unusually light-colored slate is well worn. A5752/1274 is written in black on the stone.

Date

6000-1000 BCE

Rights

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

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Citation

“OHC A 5752/001274,” FIT Bannerstone Project, accessed December 26, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/273.

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