STONE DISC PALETTE
SOUTHERN INDIANA?
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COPYRIGHT OCTOBER 31, 2011 PETER A. BOSTROM

    Very little is known about this stone disc palette. The only information is that it was once in a small southern Indiana private collection and it appears to have once had a tag on one side. It does seem to be an ancient artifact. It's surface indicates that it was pecked, ground and polished into shape. One side is fairly evenly flat. The other side has a slight concave depth of 1/16 inch (2 mm). There is a crack in the stone that extends towards the center for about 3 inches (7.6 cm). The stone appears to be the gray fine-grained micaceous sandstone that is reported from the Moundville area. There is also a red colored residue on both sides that may be red ochre.
    It's possible that this palette may have been made by a Moundville craftsman since it's made of what may be stone from that area in northern Alabama. This palette doesn't have any carved or notched edges or engraved lines but there are plain stone discs reported from the Moundville area.

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