**Engraved slate**
Location: Hardaway site (31St4), Stanly County, North Carolina.
Period: Unknown, likely Late Paleoindian to Middle Archaic (8500-5000 BC).
Material: slate.
Dimensions: length, 170.0 mm; width, 104.1 mm; thickness, 21.2 mm.
Notes: Catalog no. 492a24 (specimen 2), North Carolina Archaeological Collection, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Illustrated in *The Formative Cultures of the Carolina Piedmont,* by Joffre L. Coe, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society vol. 54, pt. 5, 1964, Figure 71. Model by Abigail Gancz.