Cobble Chopper Item Number: 2021.O.002:019 from the Sto:lo Research & Resource Management Centre

Description

A medium sized, side flaked, convex cobble chopper with smooth light grey cortex covering the dorsal surface. The exposed surface is the same light grey with a very fine grain. The ventral face has multiple flake arrises, and five impact sites- only one of the sites has a bulb of percussion present, and only one other has an erailleur scar. The sites all have compression ripples, and percussion rings. Some black scarring is present on near the outer edge of the cortex, and on the ventral face.

Grey cortex and patina, unifacial,black where chipped, opaque, fine grained, chipped end, sharp edge, discoidal chopper.

Provenance

No provenance - Collected from Fraser Valley/Vancouver Island/Northwest Coast.