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have been added as tempering. The five fragments just mentioned 

 have the appearance of greater age than the majority of specimens 

 recovered from the site, and may have belonged to an early period of 

 occupancy. 



The decoration on the small fragment d is more difficult to under- 

 stand. It appears as four parallel lines of cord marks, less than one- 

 quarter inch apart. Of these the first and second, and the third 

 and fourth, are joined by similar, impressions so placed as to form 

 rows of squares, but no indications of knots are visible. It suggests 

 the use of a net made of finely twisted cords, impressed upon the plastic 

 clay, with the connecting lines between two rows of the mesh smoothed 

 away. 



Fig. 6.- 



Textile, restored, from Richards Ford. Natural siz 

 U.S.N.M. no. 373791. 



Many of the fragments reveal the use of the roulette, and others 

 are cord-marked. The impression on c was produced by either a textile 

 or basketry, the surface is greatly worn. Xo examples of incised 

 decorations were discovered on the site. The three specimens to the 

 right in the top row are fragments of rims of vessels. 



A few arrowpoints made of white quartz were found scattered over 

 the surface of the fields, and near the center of the plowed area shown 

 in the vertical photograph were several diabase boulders from which 

 pieces had been struck, with a quantity of small flakes nearby. The 

 surfaces of the flakes are only slightly altered, although they have 

 been exposed to the action of the elements for three centuries or more. 

 The finding of flakes in this condition indicates that some work had 

 been done on the site at a comparatively late day. 



