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Object Number 79-4-10/20224
Display Title Ceramic disks with perforations in center
Descriptions
Object Description Disks pottery, some perforated. 1 Parkin Punctuated potter disk, unperforated (4.5 cm diameter). 1 Mississippian Plain, variety Neeley's Ferry black slipped and burnished pottery disk, perforated (4.1 cm diameter). 1 Mississippian Plain, variety Neeley's Ferry pottery disk, unperforated (3.7-4.3 cm diameter). 1 Mississippian Plain, variety Neeley's Ferry pottery disk, partially drilled and unfinished (4 cm diameter). 6 Mississippian Plain, variety Neeley's Ferry pottery disks, perforated (2.5-5 cm diameters).
Inventory Description Ceramic discs, 7 perforated, 1 semi-perforated
Classification
  • Disk
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Arkansas / Cross County / <City> / Stanley Mounds; Parkin Site; Arkansas State # 3CS29
Intrasite Inside of enclosure
Additional Geographic Terms St. Francis River, East side of; Memphis, 35 miles west of
Materials Ceramic
Dimensions Overall: 5.2 x 4.8 x 0.9 cm (2 1/16 x 1 7/8 x 3/8 in.)
Quantity 10
Label on object 20.224

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Pottery pendants?
80-20-10/21722 Pottery pendants?
Disk
Halcomb's Mounds; Arkansas State # 3CS28
Disk-shaped potsherds
80-20-10/21721 Disk-shaped potsherds
Disk
Halcomb's Mounds; Arkansas State # 3CS28
Ceramic disk with hole; Projectile point fragment
80-20-10/21135 Ceramic disk with hole; Projectile point fragment
Disk
Neeley's Ferry Mounds; Arkansas State # 3CS24
Rim effigies
80-20-10/21325 Rim effigies
Effigy
Neeley's Ferry Mounds; Arkansas State # 3CS24
Small perforated discoidal stones
80-20-10/21361 Small perforated discoidal stones
Disk
Neeley's Ferry Mounds; Arkansas State # 3CS24
Ceramic disk, perforated
79-4-10/20214 Ceramic disk, perforated
Disk
Stanley Mounds; Parkin Site; Arkansas State # 3CS29
Ceramic rim and body sherds, notched rim, shell temper, mended, 1 pebble
80-20-10/21039 Ceramic rim and body sherds, notched rim, shell temper, mended, 1 pebble
Raw Material
Sherd
Neeley's Ferry Mounds; Arkansas State # 3CS24
Ceramic bowl, miniature
80-20-10/21097 Ceramic bowl, miniature
Complete Vessel
Neeley's Ferry Mounds; Arkansas State # 3CS24
Discoidal potsherd
80-20-10/21430 Discoidal potsherd
Disk
Stanley Mounds; Parkin Site; Arkansas State # 3CS29
Pottery pendant
80-20-10/21586 Pottery pendant
Disk
Halcomb's Mounds; Arkansas State # 3CS28
Image Not Available for Ceramic fragment
79-4-10/20228.1 Ceramic fragment
Ceramic
Stanley Mounds; Parkin Site; Arkansas State # 3CS29
Perforated discoidal stones
80-20-10/21360 Perforated discoidal stones
Disk
Neeley's Ferry Mounds; Arkansas State # 3CS24