Artifacts

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

Pottery sherds found at Town Creek Indian Mound
  Pee Dee sherds from pots finished
  with carved wooden paddles, filfot
  cross design, 2 to 9 bars.

 

 

Arrowhead
 Early Archaic
 Chipped stone
projectile point
ca. 7,000-1,000 B.C.

 

Stone axe
  Grooved axe from 
  Archaic Period 

 

  

Clay pipes found at Town Creek Indian Mound
  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.