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along the Savannah River yielded a similar complex to that found 

 at our two cave sites. At Silver Bluffs, 8 Claflin found the grilled 

 stamp pattern, the textile design, sherds with the brushed or combed 

 surface, and basal portions with the small conical, teat-like foot at 

 the corners. These same patterns were also present at the New 

 Savannah site. 9 Grit temper is characteristic of these sherds in 

 Georgia as well as in the sites under discussion in Tennessee. 



W. H. Holmes in his early work on prehistoric textiles has a draw- 

 ing of the textile design on a sherd from Carter County, Tenn. 10 

 This county is in the northeast corner of the State. The textile is 

 described as being of the plain-twine type with a close weft and 

 wide hidden warp. Probably due to my unfamiliarity with the tex- 

 tile field, I can not make up my mind whether impressions made by 

 similar weaves were of this plain-twine type or simple plaiting with 

 a hidden warp. Certainly the twist of the weft elements is not 

 shown in Holmes' reconstruction of the textile and it is not dis- 

 cernible in the positives from the pottery obtained from these cave 

 sites. When M. R. Harrington sought to compare some of the pot- 

 tery found with his Round Grave people he also referred to the 

 illustration of Holmes cited above. His sherds, particularly &, d, 

 and e, of Plate XL VII, are very similar to those found in our cave 

 sites and described as Type III. 11 After making impressions of these 

 sherds, Harrington concluded, "it was seen that the marks are the 

 imprints of a stiff fabric consisting of a warp of rushes and a weft 

 of twisted fiber cords". 12 Harrington's excavations were in Loudon 

 County, which is south of Knoxville on the Tennessee River. The 

 tempering material of these sherds was predominantly shell. It 

 should be noted, however, that if the other types present at our cave 

 sites were also present in the remains of the Round Grave people, 

 Harrington makes no mention of them. The probabilities are that 

 more than one of our types was present at the sites that Harrington 

 links with the eastern Algonquian groups. In the same publication a 

 small sherd is illustrated with the grilled-stamp design. 13 It is 

 grouped with the "Cherokee" potsherds from Hiwassee Island, near 

 Dayton, Tenn. 



Excavations at the Nacoochee mound in White County, northeastern 

 Georgia, yielded two of our types in association with a considerable 

 amount of other types of pottery. 14 The types present at this site are 

 the grilled -stamp impression and the brushed surface. See plate XX, 



s Claflin, 1931, p. 20. 

 9 Chaflin, 1931, p. 20. 

 10 Holmes, 1884, p. 410. 

 u Harrington, 1922. 

 ^ Op. cit., p. 155. 



13 Op. cit., p. 180. 



14 Heye, Hodge, and Pepper, 1918. 



