Figure 14. — Slipwarcs, Wliieldun ware, wliitc saltglaze, and engraved glass. 



Contact period,^" but it (and nos. 2-5, 8) came 

 from the secondary deposit in the Rosewell pit and 

 was undoubtedly deposited after about 1730 and 

 probably as late as 1771 (see p. 164). B4. 

 . Body sherd, native Indian pottery. Wall thickne.ss 

 Yi inch; heavily shell-tempered; no obvious decora- 

 tion; fired in reducing atmosphere to black interior 

 and gray-brown exterior. B4. 



"" The loUovving dated eultural s;-quencc was prepared by 

 Dr. Ben C. McCary and printed in his book, hiiitans in Srrcn- 

 teenth-Cenlmy Virginia, WiUiamsburg, Virginia, 350th Anniversary 

 Celebration Corporation, 1957, p. 90. 



Period Probable Time 



Paleo-Indian 8000 B.C.-3500 B.C. 



Archaic 3500 B.C.-500 B.C. 



Early Woodland 500 B.C.-A.D. 500 



Middle Woodland A.D. 500-A.D. 1000 



Late Woodland A.D. 1000-A.D. 1600 



Historic (Contact) .A.D. 1600-Prescnt 



3. Body sherd, native Indian pottery. Wall thickness 

 ^{(, inch; shell-teinpered; fired in reducing atmos- 

 phere to black interior and gray-brown e.xterior. B4. 



4. Body sherd, native Indian pottery. Wall thickness 

 '(e inch; shell-tempered; scraped outer surface; fired 

 in reducing atmosphere to gray or gray-brown. B4. 



5. Rim sherd, native Indian pottery. Roughly flat- 

 tened along rim; wall thickness ){(, inch; clay con- 

 taining small flecks of red ochre; fired in oxidizing 

 atmosphere; faint purple on interior, sandy ijrown 

 on exterior. B4. 



6. Rim sherd, nati\e Indian pottery. Wall thickness 

 Yi inch, narrowing to slightly flaring V-shaped rim; 

 shell tempered; scraped interior; exterior orna- 

 mented with overlapping crisscross design stamped 

 with thong or root-wrapped paddle; fired in reduc- 

 ing atmosphere to gray interior and gray-brown ex- 

 terior. The decoration is described by Evans as 

 the "Roanoke Simple Stamped" style and attrib- 



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