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This celt was recovered from a Mitchell County archeological site in 1975. This woodworking tool would have been made by grinding or pecking the stone into a general shape, followed by polishing. It would have been hafted onto a handle and required periodic resharpening.
Date: 1000-1500 CE
Item Number: 506215
Call Number: 14ML306-8
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 506215
Collections - Archeology
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Class - Ground Stone
Objects and Artifacts - Archeological Artifacts - Artifact Type - Celt
People - American Indians
Places - Counties - Mitchell
Thematic Time Period - Early Peoples, 10000 BCE - 1820 CE - Middle Ceramic, 1000 - 1500 CE
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