POTTERY OF ORMOND MOUND. 



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repeat in half a year, even though its swimming pow- 

 ers were very great. We shall, however, probably 

 yet learn that the Great Auk was a permanent resi- 

 dent along our coast considerably further south than 

 Cape Cod. For the further elucidation of this sub- 

 ject, search ought to be made in shell heaps all along 

 the coast." 



Fragments of pottery occur in all the shell layers 

 of the Ormond mound. Those in the lower layers 

 are, for the most part, thicker and cruder in struc- 

 ture than those of the upper. Their outer surface is 

 wholly unmarked, and there is no appearance of a 

 rim or thicker projecting portion at the top. In some 

 of the pieces the curves are not true and the thick- 

 ness not uniform. Two or three have holes in them 

 near the top, pre- 

 sumably for a 

 handle or bail for 

 lifting or sus- 

 pending above a 

 fire. This bail 

 was probably of 

 bark fiber. 



The pieces 

 taken from the 

 upper layers of 

 the mound are 

 many of them 

 more or less decorated on the outer surface. These 

 decorations are, in the main, rough parallel tracings 



Fig. 55 Piece of Pottery taken from Ormond 

 Shell Mound. 



