Common Artifact Types
Below are some of the common types of artifacts found at Occaneechi Town.
Animal Bones
Brick Fragments
Charcoal
Chipped-Stone Projectile Points
Clay Pipe Fragments
Daub & Fired Clay
Flakes
Glass Beads
Glass Fragments
Gunflints
Lead Shot
Potsherds
Shell Beads
The Occaneechi and their predecessors used the bow-and-arrow as a weapon. Their arrows were tipped with small triangular points that were chipped from stone. Much earlier inhabitants of the site (before about 1,000 B.C.) used larger stemmed or notched, chipped-stone points to tip spears.
