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[BULL. 118 



Sites Nos. 3 and 12 will be found in the general area in which they 

 are located. A collection of sherds from Lauderdale, Limestone, 

 Morgan, and Colbert Counties along the Tennessee Kiver in northern 

 Alabama, that were obtained by Tennessee Valley Authority workers 

 in 1933-34, will undoubtedly have many close analogies to the pot- 

 tery from the cave sites in the Norris Basin. The northern rela- 

 tionships seem to be with sites that are grouped under the roughly 

 synonymous and perhaps misleading terms, "Woodland" and "Algon- 

 quian." 



Comparative Chart for Pottery at Sites Nos. 3 and 12 





Site No. 3 



Site No. 12 



Temper: 



Limestone 



Abundant _ 



Abundant. 



Other forms of grit 



do 



Rare. 



Texture: 



Fine__„ 



Absent 



Do. 



Medium fine. 



Rare 



Medium. 



Medium 



Abundant- __ _ 



Abundant. 



Medium coarse 



do 



Medium. 



Coarse_ ___ ___ __ 



Rare 



Rare. 



Hardness: 



2 



Absent 



Do. 



2-2.5 to 3 . 



Abundant _ _ 



Abundant. 



3 to 4 



Medium. . 



Rare. 



Surface finish: 



Cord-wrapped paddle 



do 



Medium. 



Double fabric impression 



Absent- 



Do. 



Simple plait or twine weave 



Medium 



Do. 



Brushed surfaces 



Rare 



Rare. 



Smoothed 



Medium 



Medium. 



Grilled-stamp impression 



Abundant 



Rare. 



Shape of rim: 



Straight. __ 



X " 



x. 



Slight incurve _ _ 



X --- 



X. 



Slight flare . _ _ . 



X- _ 



x. 



Shape of lip: 



Rounded 



X 



X. 



Flattened and rounded 



X-_- --- _ 



X. 



Narrowed and rounded 



X- - - -- 



X. 









»X indicates that the trait occurs only on a few sherds. 



Site No. 11. — Salt Pans 



There are a considerable number of salt-pan sherds from Site No. 

 11. These sherds were grouped into two main divisions — rim sherds 

 and body sherds. Eighty of the rim sherds showed impressions pro- 

 duced by textiles while only eight had been smoothed. The imprints 

 on five of the rim sherds were so indefinite and the sherds so small 

 that no conclusions could be drawn as to their position within the 

 salt-pan group. There are 64 body sherds readily identified as be- 

 longing to the salt-pan group because of their typical textile patterns, 



