AMNH D/147

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D/147

11/1/2016

Tomoka Creek, Volusa County, Florida. Donor A.E. Douglass

Greenish black

5

5.7

0.4

n/a

0.3

25.25

This bannerstone is broken at the spine where it has been further polished with a hole Perforated at each corner of the edge of the wing. It was excavated along with eight bannerstones by A. E. Douglass in 1881. Published in “A Find of Ceremonial Axes in a Florida Mound,” The American Antiquarian (1882): 104; and in Bruce John Piatek, “The Tomoka Mound Complex in Northeastern Florida,” Southeastern Archaeology Winter (1994) 109-118. XRD analysis at AMNH on 1/11/17 indicates high presence of muscovite.

6000-1000 BCE

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