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Table 4. — Quantitative comparison of pottery types at the Knight's Bluff and Sherwin 

 Sites {number of specimens and percentage, of all identified specimens, are given 



for each type) 



Knight's Bluff Sherwin 



Ttpe: Number Percent Number Percent 



Barkman Engraved 329 0.212 66 0.253 



Hatchel Engraved, bottles 2 . 001 1 .004 



Barkman design, incised, bowls 3 .002 1 .004 



Bowie Engraved 1 .001 



Simms Engraved 7 .004 16 .061 



Baytown-like 284 .183 44 .168 



Avery Engraved 3 . 002 1 .004 



Belcher Engraved 2 .001 



Pease Brushed-Iucised 392 .253 55 .211 



Nash Neck Banded 142 .092 45 .173 



Dunkin Incised, late variant 86 .055 11 .042 



McKinney Plain 219 .141 4 .015 



Belcher Ridged 10 .006 2 .008 



Pennington Punctated-Incised 13 .008 2 .008 



Cass Appliqued 24 .015 



Foster Trailed-Incised 6 . 004 5 .019 



Crockett Curvilinear Incised 6 .004 



Haley Engraved 15 .010 3 .004 



Antioch Engraved 4 .003 



Higgins Engraved 1 . 001 5 .019 



Rattle Bowls 3 .002 



Total 1,552 1.000 261 1.000 



a great help toward completing the owl effect, but any lines that may 

 have been there cannot be detected now because of the greatly dis- 

 integrated condition of the specimen. The total length is 9.4 cm., 

 maximum width is 3.8 cm., and thickness is approximately 4 mm. 



DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 



The Sherwin Site evidently represents a small village occupied by 

 a sedentary people who may be safely assumed to have been agri- 

 cultural, although no actual remains of agricultural products were 

 found. The general character of the site — its size, location, and 

 artifact types — parallels closely the Knight's Bluff Site, only a mile 

 away. In contrast to KJnight's Bluff, however, no evidence of an 

 earlier Archaic occupation was found at Sherwin. 



The principal resident pottery types are Barkman Engraved, Pease 

 Brushed-Incised, Baytown-like, and Nash Neck Banded. Of less 

 frequent occurrence, but perhaps of minor resident status, are types 

 Higgins Engraved, Simms Engraved, Dunkin Incised, late variant, 

 McKinney Plain, Foster Trailed-Incised, and possibly Avery En- 

 graved, Belcher Ridged, and Haley Engraved. 



All of the major resident types are quantitatively comparable to 

 the same types at Knight's Bluff. But one of the major types at 



