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nearly seventeen inches high and is sixteen inches in diameter. The 

 plain part of the rim is one and one-half inches wide, and the lip is well 

 rounded and strongly recurved. The lines are quite graceful, the neck 

 expanding below into a globular body which is just a little pointed at 

 the base. The color is dark, from use over the fire. The fillets of clay 

 were narrow and very neatly crimped. Roughly estimated, there were 

 at least three hundred feet of the coil used. The vessel has a capacity 

 of about ten gallons. 



Fig. 242. — Vase from the tumulus at Saint George. — h 



Vases of this particular outline may be found, varying in size from 

 these grand proportions to small cups an inch or two iu height. Of a 

 somewhat different type is the vessel shown in Fig. 241. The outline is 

 symmetrical. The neck is comparatively high and wide and swells out 

 gently to the widest part of the body, the base being almost hemispherical. 

 A band about the neck is coiled and roughly indented, while the body is 

 quite smooth. The plain band about the mouth is broad and sharply 

 recurved. The coils are wide and deeply indented. They have been 

 smoothed down somewhat while the clay was still soft. The vase shown 

 in Fig. 242 is characterized by its upright rim, elongated neck, round 

 body, and plain broad coils. The fillets are set one upon another, ap- 

 parently without the usual imbrication. This latter feature occurs in 

 a number of cases in the vessels of this locality. 



The bottle given iu Fig. 243 is quite comely in shape. The neck ex- 

 pands gracefully from the rim to its junction with the body, which swells 

 out abruptly to its greatest fullness. The coil is not neatly laid. The 

 indentation began with the coil, but was almost obliterated on the lower 

 part of the vessel while the clay was yet soft. The fillets are not so well 

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