AMNH 20.0/8285

About this Bannerstone

Collection

American Museum of Natural History

BA#

Catalog or Accession #

20.0/8285

Date Studied

11/29/2016

Provenance/Provenience

Henrico County, Virginia. Donor Charles M. Wallace

Color

Greenish gray

Width (cm)

7.5

Height (cm)

9.6

Diameter of Perforation (cm)

1.5

Depth at Perforation/or Widest Point (cm)

Depth at Edge (cm)

0.3

Weight (g)

209.4

Notes

This is a monochromatic finally polished stone common with Shield-shaped bannerstones. There are chips at either edge of the perforations. On the front of the stone to the left of the spine there is an incised image of a seated person wearing a hat with the initials “D” and “s”. To the right of the spine is a large fish. On the back of the stone an anchor is incised. These incised markings are not Archaic in nature. They would have been added in the19th century when most bannerstones were found in the land by settlers.

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 20.0/8285,” FIT Bannerstone Project, accessed December 26, 2024, https://bannerstone.fitnyc.edu/items/show/83.

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