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SURFACE FINISH: 
Interior: Usually smooth; on a few sherds grains of sand protrude. 
Exterior: Most of the sherds are too small to permit analysis of their sur- 
face treatment, but identifiable ones have been simple-stamped and par- 
tially smoothed while the clay was still plastic. 
DECORATION : 
Techniques: Impressions made with a cylindrical object ; incised lines made 
with a pointed object; trailed lines made with a blunt tool; impressions 
made with a finger or thumb. All these techniques employed while the 
clay was still plastic. 
Pattern: A single row of finger or tool impressions on the lip or on the rim 
interior at the lip. 
The most common forms of decoration on the shoulder area are: Par- 
allel incised or trailed lines; opposing diagonal or opposing horizontal 
and vertical incised or trailed lines. 
There are 20 body sherds decorated with two or more parallel lines; 
9 of these are incised lines and 11 are trailed. Two body sherds are 
decorated with opposing diagonals, trailed lines on both sherds. Two 
body sherds are decorated with lines and punctations. One has parallel 
trailed lines and the other has one parallel and two diagonally opposing 
incised lines above a group of fine and seemingly scattered punctations. 
Distribution: All vessels are decorated on the lip or on the rim interior at 
the lip. Shoulder sections are frequently, if not invariably, decorated. 
Rims are all plain except one that has a single horizontal trailed line. 
ForRM: 
Lip: Rounded on seven and flat on four of the sherds. 
Rim: Wight are large enough to show their form. All these are slightly flar- 
ing. 
Neck: Constricted on all sherds large enough to give indication. 
Shoulder: Data not available. 
Appendages: One straphandle found on the surface. It is small and appears 
to have come from a miniature vessel. 
DIMENSIONS: 
Rim height: Range from 12 to 38 mm. 
Thickness: Body sherds range from 3 to 8 mm.; the majority are 4 mm. 
thick. Rims range from 4 to 9 mm. 
MISCELLANEOUS SHERDS: One rim and three body sherds 
The rim sherd is shell-tempered and chalky in texture and slate-black in 
color. The lip is rounded and has blunt punctations about 8 mm. apart on its 
top. On one section of the rim it appears as if an appendage has been broken 
off. The rim is slightly flaring. This sherd was located in association with 
the single cache pit found at the site in 1956. The three body sherds, all lo- 
cated on the surface, are shell-tempered and buff in color. No decoration is 
observed on these sherds. The above-mentioned shell-tempered sherds compare 
favorably with pottery from the Warne (14JW2) and the Interwmill (14J W202) 
sites. 
