- Name:
- Ground stone celt fragment (woodworking tool)
- Description:
Artifact Type: Ground stone celt fragment (woodworking tool)
Material: Fine-grained stone (likely sandstone or siltstone)
Manufacturing Technique: Pecked, ground, and smoothed
Condition: Fragment; bit end intact with broken butt/hafting end
Size: Approximately 2.5–3 inches remaining length
Form / Edge Type: Broad, slightly convex cutting bit with tapered body
Function: Woodworking tool used for chopping or carving wood
Cultural Period: Archaic – Woodland (approx. 4000 BCE – 1000 CE)
Find Location: Williams Island, Tennessee River, Tennessee
- Accession Number:
- 2024.1.209
- Prior Inventory Number:
- 662
- Collection:
- Sub Collection:
- Category:
- Anthropology
- Keywords:
- celt
- Object Size (LxWxH):
- 2.5" x 1" x .1875"
- Type/Materials:
- Sandstone
- Origin Continent:
- North America
- Origin Country:
- United States
- Origin State/Province:
- TN
- Origin City/Town:
- Williams Island
- Date/Era:
- Quarternary Period (0-2.6m years)
