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Copper point - 5588 square crop.jpg
Copper Points from the Walker Camp. Copper artifacts were rare in this collection.

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Origin unknown.

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204 is from the Parker Collection, 1595 is from Shattuck Farm, third unknown. These are plummets. The collection includes a number of plummets of all sizes, used to weigh down fishing nets. We can guess that fishing was an important food source given…

Photo - Shell heap, Thera Luce, and Fred Luce - 2009.242.021.001.jpg
Picture of Fred and Thera Luce excavating a shell heap in Welfleet, Massachusetts, July, 1916.

Frederick Alanson Luce Exhibit Frederick Alanson Luce (Fred Luce) was an early avocational archaeologist active in the early 20th century. Unlike many avocational archaeologists who simply went out collecting Native American artifacts from plowed…

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Plano Points are found in Archaic sites, 9,000 to 3,000 BP. This is an unusual artifact in the collection, found on the shore of the Merrimack River in West Newbury. Have not found anything like it.

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These four pieces of clay pottery were discovered July 16, 1914 by Stanley E. Luce while working in a shell heap. Found in Pilgrim Spring (Cape Cod, MA), these clay sherds were located about 24 inches below the surface.

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Number 1710 was found at the Moccasin Bend site located in Hamilton County, TN. Discovered in 1914, the axe is slightly grooved and deeply notched, measuring to be 7.5 inches long and 2 3/4 inches wide.

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Number 1864 is a leaf shaped knife discovered in Flint Ridge, Ohio. Part of the Chester Brown Collection at the Buttonwoods, the presence of such an object in the collection demonstrates the diversity in provenance within the collection.
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