26 SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS VOL. 92 



Burial urn 8 (pi. 2, fig. 3, and pi. 3, fig. 3) was i foot north ot 

 urn 7 on the same level. This vessel has a pleasing shape with con- 

 siderable neck but a small everted rim. It is 34 cm in height, 28 cm 

 in outside mouth diameter, and .8 cm thick at the neck. Half of a 

 similar urn had been placed over the aperture of urn 8 but had broken 

 into small fragments. Urn 8 contained two adult skulls (only one of 

 which was saved) and a child's skull with holes in the forehead. No 

 long bones were present, but there were numerous vertebrae and ribs ; 

 two vertebrae, fused together, were preserved. One of the adult 

 skulls was that of an old person and lacked any teeth in the maxillary. 



Bird's material from site i is segregated according to depth. Since 

 the specimens preserved include only about 40 potsherds and 2 other 

 artifacts, the results thus obtained, although valuable, are not strik- 

 ing. The ceramic material, with the exception of the burial urns 

 previously described, is all broken and of a monochrome, red to bufl, 

 sand-tempered type. The upper layer extends from the surface to a 

 depth of 18 inches. This very roughly coincides with the wind- 

 blown sand stratum, although, as figure 3 indicates, the respective 

 depths of the strata were variable. From this upper layer there are 

 at hand some 17 sherds, including 10 rim sherds. One of the latter 

 is from a thin, highly polished, red bowl, with one perforation for 

 " crack lacing ". Three are decorated with incised, punctate, and 

 relief adornment, and one has a raised and notched horizontal band 

 on the neck. Two large sherds come from big vertical jars with 

 slightly flaring necks. One of them is decorated by an incised panel, 

 6.3 cm wide, below the neck, having a St. Andrew cross with punc- 

 tate marks where the lines cross ; the other has incised double scrolls 

 with four punctate marks diagonally through their centers (compare 

 pi. 24, a). Two sherds from simple open bowls are both incised, one 

 with an elongated double scroll, the other with irregular crisscross 

 lines. One rim sherd is identical with the burial urn rim type (pi. 3, 

 fig. 2). There are two thin (.5 cm) body sherds with linear and 

 curved ornamentation by incision and relief. One basal fragment 

 with a bored hole 2.5 cm in diameter is similar to the burial urns. 

 There are two hollow conical feet, one plain with three irregular per- 

 forations and the other decorated by incisions, punctate marks, and 

 raised vertical strips, on which are other punctate marks. Two rim 

 sherds have vertical loop handles ; one is plain and the other has 

 crudely incised lines extending its length. The latter handle is from 

 a vessel with two raised scalloped bands extending around the neck 

 where the handle is attached. The only nonceramic artifact from this 

 stratum is a much battered celt (8.5 cm long, 3.6 cm thick) of hard 

 gray stone. 



