IS ?fo." 33]' P^U^ BRAVE SITE — ^WOOD AND WOOLWORTH 59 



Table 5. — Comparison of traits at Paul Brave and Thomas Riggs sites — Con. 



house floors were once visible in the cut bank of the terrace and that 

 the pottery was "Archaic Mandan." A test pit excavated south of 

 the gravel road by the State Historical Society field party in 1955 

 recovered the artifacts described below from a shallow, irregular pit. 

 Three of the seven rim sherds are similar to the type herein described 

 as Riggs Plain Rim ; the lips of two sherds are indented. Two small 

 rim sherds represent the type Fort Yates Cord Impressed. One rim, 

 30 mm. high, has a fillet on the mid-rim, the crest of which is 12 mm. 

 below the lip. The rim profile resembles that of the type Riggs 

 Punctate (lOeinsasser, 1953, p. 29, fig. 26, ^), but the fillet lacks the 

 punctates that are characteristic of this type. A final rim is unclassi- 

 fied. Seven of the 18 body sherds are simple-stamped, and 7 are 

 smoothed. 



