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there are three rim or basal flange fragments from similar vessels ; 

 two of these have the opposed step and dot design, and the third has 

 angular lines and dots. Two rim sherds from a highly polished red 

 vase have an outside bevel below the rim. A small portion of body 

 ornamentation on these pieces shows a rectangle of lines in relief 

 containing incised square and curvilinear motifs. Of the three de- 

 tached feet in the cave i collection, two are hollow cylinders flaring 

 toward the top and decorated with punctate markings, and the third 

 is of the thin, solid rectilinear type. 



In the cave i collection are about a dozen rim sherds of rather 

 coarse, brick-red pottery. All but two of these plain monochrome 

 sherds are from large to medium pots with more or less constricted 

 necks and low flaring lips (similar to pi. 30, h-l). The two sherds are 

 from small open bowls, one has a direct, the other a definitely incurved 

 rim. The largest of the sherds with low, flaring rims are similar in 

 type to the small burial urns from Black Rock Basin, Utila. The others 

 appear to have been smaller utilitarian vessels. Aside from simple 

 incised line and dot, or small, rough applique tabs on a few of these, 

 they are undecorated. This sample seems fairly typical of a large 

 amount of the discarded sherds at cave i. 



Cave 2 contained a small amount of broken pottery and one shell 

 bead, but nothing else. As previously stated, a number of complete 

 vessels and considerable other material had been removed by Mitchell- 

 Hedges and the man who discovered the site. All the sherds from 

 this rock shelter were thickly coated with a pinkish incrustation, 

 similar to the powdered debris in the hollow, and in some cases, a 

 whitish, calcareous deposit had been added to this. Conditions for 

 preservation seemed better here than in the perpetually damp man- 

 grove swamp muck, yet in one case, at least, deterioration was more 

 marked. I refer to the red and black painted sherd (pi. 18, fig. i, e) 

 from cave i, which had retained its color, whereas a fragment from 

 the same vessel in cave 2 bore only the faintest traces of paint. A 

 smaller rim fragment of the same vessel however, under a whitish 

 calcareous coating retains the black collar design almost as well as 

 the larger sherds from cave i. 



In addition, there were three other fragments of slipped ware. One 

 of these is the thick basal fragment (9 mm in thickness) with a solid, 

 rectangular lug, which bears traces of a highly polished black slip. 

 The two remaining painted pieces are obviously from thin Poly- 

 chrome I vessels and consist of a typical nose-tilted face lug and a 

 hollow flattened, conical foot. Both bear faint traces of characteristic 

 polychrome designs. The foot contains a piece of gravel as a rattle. 



