Artifacts

Artifacts found at Town Creek: Pottery, Tools, and Weapons

Pee Dee Sherds from pots finished with carved wooden paddles, filfot cross design, 2 to 9 bars. Pottery sherd with geometric designPottery sherd with geometric design

 

 

 

 

Grooved Axhead  Projectile PointGrooved Ax from Archaic Period, and Early Archaic

  Chipped Stone Projectile Point, ca. 7,000 - 1,000 B.C.

 

 

clay pipe with flared bowl  clay pipe with bowl shaped like a frog

Short-Stemmed, Clay Pipes— from burial 20 and pre-mound humus. 

 

Adapted from Coe, Joffre Lanning. Town Creek Indian Mound: A Native American Legacy. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1995.

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