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Title
Copper
Plate
Subject
Hopewell culture
Woodland culture
Mound-builders
Indian copperwork
Time Period
Middle
Woodland
Description
This
large
,
copper
breast
plate
is
heavily
corroded
.
It
is
brilliant
green
,
moderate
green
, and
moderate
blue
green
in
color
. There are
light
olive
brown
encrustations
,
possibly
adhered
bark
, on the
reverse
face
of the
plate
.
One
corner
of the
reverse
face
is
dark
red
. On the
obverse
face
are
two
concentric
circles
; the
diameter
of the
inner
circle
is
45
mm
and the
diameter
of the
outer
circle
is
118.4
mm
.
Below
the
circles
is
a
set
of
concentric
half
circles
; the
diameter
of the
inner
half
circle
is
45
mm
and the
diameter
of the
outer
half
circle
is
114.8
mm
.
Above
the
outer
half
circle
are
two
parallel
lines
that
come
together
in an
arc
; the
distance
between
the
lines
is
47.8
mm
. There
is
a
shorter
set
of
parallel
lines
that
form
an
arc
,
measuring
47.3
mm
apart
at the
widest
part
. There are
two
holes
drilled
in the
center
that
measure
9
mm
in
diameter
.
One
of the
holes
is
drilled
in the
larger
of the
two
concentric
circles
; the
other
hole
is
drilled
70.1
mm
away
from the
first
hole
and
inside
the
shorter
set
of
parallel
lines
,
near
the
arc
at the
base
.
Both
the
base
and
top
edge
of the
plate
are
flat
. The
corners
are
rounded
and
one
corner
has
broken
away
. The
side
edges
are
straight
and
flare
slightly
,
about
three
quarters
of the
way
down
, to
form
rounded
edges
at the
bottom
. This
piece
comes
from
Hopewell
Culture
. In
Ohio
, the
Hopewell
Indians
(100
B.C.-A.D
.
500)
built
burial
mounds
and
large
earthen
enclosures
in
geometric
shapes
(circles
,
squares
, and
octagons)
to
mark
the
places
where
the
people
gathered
periodically
to
participate
in
many
social
and
ceremonial
events
.
Some
of these
sites
were
quite
large
-
the
Newark
Earthworks
complex
extends
over
a
4-square-mile
area
. The
Hopewell
people
also
maintained
a
large
trade
network
extending
as
far
as the
Rocky
Mountains
of
Wyoming
, the
Florida
coast
and
Appalachians
, and
northern
Lake
Superior
.
Collection
John
Seip
Collection
Source
WH04
Box
CF0019
; A
957/002152
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
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Type
StillImage
File Name
A0957_002152_1.tif
Image Height
2448
Image Width
3264
File Size
23987008 Bytes
Format
picture
;
artifacts
Extent
143.1 mm wide, 279 mm long, 2.1 mm deep, 384 g weight.
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