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Pottery 



This site is characterized by a relative abundance of sherds of small, 

 thin vessels, as opposed to a dearth of sherds of the larger vessels of 

 coarse texture. Cord-paddle-marked pottery did not seem to have 

 been an important component of the complex on this site. Textile- 

 marked sherds show the usual textile weaves common to other sites of 

 the basin. Round handles on pots of small to medium size are in 

 abundance. The large strap handle does not occur. Round and flat 

 lugs, set either below or on a straight rim, occur in fair abundance, 

 but there is no evidence of pointed rims carrying lugs. Plate 103, a, 

 shows a variety of sherds of types mostly rare on this site. Cord band 

 impressions, red on white polychrome, textile marked, and punctate 

 decorations are shown. The last three are shell tempered, but the 

 cord band impressed appears to be sand tempered. 



There are shown in plate 103, a, two sherds of rectangular stamped 

 design. This ware was abundant on this site. The smaller of these 

 patterns is a square, eight meshes to the inch. The larger pattern is a 

 rectangle three and one-half by four meshes to the inch. It is sand 

 tempered and very uniformly 0.25 inch in thickness. This stamped 

 design was used for small vessels, as shown in plate 103, b, which 

 shows two small pots taken from Burial No. 1, Mound No. 1. The 

 larger of these two pots was 5.75 inches in diameter. The stamped 

 design covered the whole pot. 



Artifacts 



This site yielded a large number of perforated shell hoes, but 

 very few bone artifacts. Arrow points, celts, a quartz ball, and a 

 pottery pipe are shown in plate 104, a. Stone disks are conspicuous 

 by their absence. Only two pottery disks were found. In the gen- 

 eral digging of the village site the double conoidal zoomorphic pipe 

 shown in plate 105, a, was found. It is possible that it was in asso- 

 ciation with Burial No. 1, but, because it was so close to the surface 

 of the cultivated field, may have been disturbed by the plow. This 

 pipe is of sandstone, roughly cubic in form, and appears to be a 

 crude representation of a frog. Its overall dimensions are 3.3 inches 

 by 2.5 inches by 3.8 inches high. It was rough-pecked into form 

 and showed no polish. 



Conclusions 



This site seems to have been an important village in the midst 

 of which at least three locations were chosen for the erection of large 

 earth-covered structures. 



The site appears most closely related to those of the "small-log" 

 type of town-house construction. While it may be thus classified, 



