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As at Site No. 3, it has been difficult to recover a clear impression 

 of the fabric used to impress the surface of the soft predried vessel. 

 It seems probable that the fabric was a simple plaited weave. One 

 closely woven type, illustrated in the upper left-hand corner of plate 

 83, <z, is also represented in the Ceramic Repository. The sherd at 

 hand has a measurement of 4 cm for five warp threads and only 0.8 

 cm for five weft threads. A more common type, such as the one 

 sherd in the lower row between the basal sherd and grid-marked 

 sherd (pi. 83, a) would measure 2.5 or 3 cm for five warp threads 

 and 0.9 cm for five weft threads. The sherds range in thickness from 

 0.3 cm to 1 cm, with the usual measurement being 0.6 cm to 0.9 cm. 



The miscellaneous group of sherds includes stamped pieces, of 

 which there are only three at this site, whereas they occupied a sep- 

 arate group at Site No. 3, with 55 pieces at least of this type of 

 surface treatment. Also included in this group are six sherds with 

 a brushed or combed surface treatment. This type is illustrated 

 (pi. 152) in the photographs of pottery from this site. Most of the 

 sherds whose surfaces had been so smoothed that it was difficult to 

 accurately tell the original surface treatment probably belonged to 

 Type III. 



The tempering material is almost altogether limestone, and Sherd 

 No. 28 (Chart IX) contained quite a number of oolites, prompting 

 Dr. Ehlers to suggest that the limestone which served as the temper- 

 ing material was possibly derived from Mississippian oolitic strata. 

 In most of the sherds there is a high percentage of temper. Nine 

 of the sherds in this miscellaneous group had fine texture. Associ- 

 ated with this characteristic was a smooth surface finish and a 

 thinner cross section. 



One sherd has a hardness of 2, being the softest sherd at either 

 of the sites. A majority of the sherds have a hardness of 2-2.5 

 and only five are harder than 2.5. Seventeen of the interior surfaces 

 and 12 of the exterior surfaces are discolored by smoke blackening. 

 The color on the exterior surfaces is similar to that of the material 

 in the other groups at this site and at Site No. 3. The thickness 

 ranges from 0.4 cm to 1.5 cm, with most of the sherds having a width 

 of 0.6 cm to 1 cm. 



The first sherd in this miscellaneous group has an atypical shape, 

 as can be seen in the cross section drawing. It has a long sloping 

 shoulder with a straight rim about 2.5 cm high which is recurved 

 outward at almost a 45° angle to the shoulder line. The estimated 

 diameter of the vessel just below the lip is 9 inches. 



When the two sites are compared it will be seen at once that the 

 pottery belongs to the same general group. All of the sherds are 

 grit tempered, with Site No. 12 having a higher percentage of lime- 



