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The two vessels restored from sherds collected partly by Hansen 

 and partly by us are shown in plate 36, c^ d. The larger of the two, 

 J, is 13.4 cm. high and about 14.5 cm. in greatest diameter. Flat 

 bottomed, it has bulging sides, which are drawn in somewhat at the 

 top and give a barrel-like effect. The walls are thin, probably every- 

 where under 4 mm. Just below the lip is a slender vertical loop 

 handle ; that on the right in the illustration is restored. Surfaces are 

 undecorated except for traces of two faint horizontal lines just below 

 the lip. The paste, where exposed by a peeling slip of dark gray, is 

 reddish brown in color. In places the slip shows a network of very 

 fine irregular cracks, and there is evidence that it was once polished. 

 Broad shallow striations, presumably a result of the use of a smooth- 

 ing tool, run in an oblique fashion across the interior surface. 



The other specimen is globular in shape, with constricted neck, 

 flaring rim, and rounded lip (pi. 36, c). It has a diameter of 14.8 

 cm. and a height of 11.2 cm. Color varies from light buff to dark 

 gray, and the surfaces have been indifferently rubbed down; both 

 interior and exterior show striations from the smoothing process, in 

 additioii to pitting left by leaching of shell particles. The vessel 

 is heavier than the two preceding ones, and the walls as a whole prob- 

 ably slightly exceed 5 mm. in thickness. There is no ornamentation 

 whatever, unless two low rounded eminences applied to the lip be so 

 considered. They are spaced in such manner as to suggest that a 

 third unit was intended, but if so it seems never to have been added. 



Nolan D. — ^This structure, farthest east of the group (fig. 12, P), 

 loomed prominently as a rock pile devoid of brush or earth covering. 

 It was about 18 feet in diameter and, owing to erosion of the sur- 

 rounding tilled ground, rose to a height of nearly 3^/^ feet. Removal 

 of a superficial layer of small stones revealed a nearly square cham- 

 ber about 614 feet across. The walls facing into the chamber were as 

 carefully laid up as those in any of the other mounds. They con- 

 sisted of four or five courses, which reached an average height of 

 about 20 inches. The stones were of a size comparable to those in 

 other mounds; the largest was 40 by 6 by 13 inches. Here and there 

 one showed fire-reddening, but these were always set among unburnt 

 specimens. None of the enclosures in the Pearl Branch group was 

 laid out exactly on the cardinal points of the compass, and most of 

 them opened in a south-southeasterly direction. The present structure 

 was farther off than most, however, in that the corners pointed very 

 nearly to the cardinal directions. Unlike the others, too, the passage- 

 way, narrowing from a width of 28 inches at the inner to 23 inches 

 at the outer end and 4 feet long, opened toward the southwest. One 

 side of the passage and the adjoining wall near the west corner had 

 been partly torn out by earlier excavators. The outer walls, like 



