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Plain Ware 



One vessel (Find 18), possibly an unfinished Red ware vessel, com- 

 prises this category. It is a small, unslipped, collared jar with a round 

 base and an outcurving collar. Surfaces are rough and the paste is 

 fired to an orange-buff. 



UNCLASSIFIED VESSELS 



Find 1-6, a badly weathered and eroded jar with a round base, 

 fragments of a strap handle, and an estimated diameter of 15-20 cms. 

 was not classified due to its inconclusive nature. The strap handle 

 and traces of red paint, however, suggest that it may have been a Red 

 Daubed jar. 



Find 9 is another badly weathered jar, but with a distinctive shape 

 which has no counterpart in the materials covered in this study. 

 The body is globular with a rounded base and the collar is tall with a 

 widely outcurved neck and rim and an unmodified lip. Total height 

 is 15 cms., diameter is 14 cms., orifice diameter is 5.5 cms., and lip 

 diameter is 10.5 cms. The surface is smoothed and buff-colored with 

 faint traces of red paint or slip on the body and upper lip surface. 

 There are also traces of a black paint or stain on the body exterior. 



Another collared jar (Find 13), with an estimated diameter of 26 

 cms., also appears unique. The base is round, the collar widely out- 

 curving (orifice is 7.5 cms. and lip diameter is 16 cms.), and the upper 

 Ip surface is decorated with red paint and a series of shell edge impres- 

 sions arranged radially. The paste and surface of the vessel are fired 

 an orange-red and the surface is soft (Mobs' scale rating of No. 2) 

 with a waxy feel to it. 



STONE ARTIFACTS 



Worked stone, consisting only of a few rubbing or polishing stones, 

 a stone celt, and a metate, was very rare at He-2. The metate stands 

 16 cm. high and is of the table variety, and has three conical legs; two 

 opposing and flush with the sides of the platform, and one along the 

 long axis of the platform but located well inside the edge. The edges 

 of the platform are beveled. The surface is smoothed and worn and 

 is slightly concave along the long (57 cm.) axis but virtually flat along 

 the short ("43 cm.) axis. In view of the Gir6n type and other pottery 

 associations of Find Unit 4-6, this variety of metate can be placed 

 in the Early Code Phase in addition to the Late Code Phase associa- 

 tions of the variety at He-1. 



The celt. Find 7-2, also probably Early Code Phase, belongs in 

 the chipped poll category discussed earher for He-4 and has a broad, 

 fully curved and well-polished blade and a thick, narrow, roughly 

 chipped poll. It most closely resembles one illustrated by Lothrop 



