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the rims are straight, and the remainder are slightly flaring. This type 

 of jar has the highest percentage of flattened and rounded lips at the 

 site, as 26 percent can be so classified. Bounded lips constitute 34 

 percent, and the majority of the remainder were narrowed and 

 rounded. Again, a relatively small number were smoke blackened, 

 particularly on the exterior surface. The lip thickness ranged from 

 0.3 cm to 1 cm, with 80 percent of the lips measuring between 0.4 cm 

 and 0.7 cm. Seventy-four percent of the rims were between 0.6 cm and 



1 cm. The shoulder, when present, was not as thick as the rim in the 

 majority of examples. The horizontal extent of the lug is described 

 as the length, the vertical measurement is recorded as the height, and 

 the width is the distance between the interior rim surface and the most 

 lateral point of the lug. Although the length of the lugs varied from 



2 cm to 8.3 cm, three- fourths of them were between 2 cm and 6 cm. 

 Practically the same proportion held true in restricting the height 

 between 1.5 cm and 2.5 cm and the width to between 1.5 cm and 3 cm. 

 The estimated diameter for rim sherds described in Chart XIX are 

 for No. 6, 13.5 inches; No. 9, 12 inches; No. 10, 11 inches; No. 12, 14 

 inches; No. 35, 10.5 inches; and No. 41, 6 inches. 



Lugs of this type are illustrated in plate 77, «, and figure 53. The 

 semicircular rim lug which is the third sherd in the second row of 

 plate 77, a, is atypical for this site and for the other sites in the Norris 

 Basin. 



Miscellaneous 



There are a number of vessel fragments which represent types of 

 less frequent occurrence. The second sherd in the third row of plate 

 77, a, has an outer rim strip or flange which runs horizontally around 

 the upper portion of the rim. Two short parallel strips of clay join 

 the horizontal strip to the lip. The shape of this vessel was probably 

 that of an open-mouth jar such as is described under jar type B. The 

 second sherd in the second row of the same figure is a small open- 

 mouth jar with a short rim, flaring shoulder, and smoothed surface. 

 While the small rim-lip lug is not atypical, the curvilinear, narrow, 

 shallow incised lines with a single row of small dots are not commonly 

 found. The bowl-shaped (?) sherds shown in plate 79, 6, with the 

 roughly parallel series of the prefired incised curvilinear and recti- 

 linear lines are represented by only two sherds in the study collection. 

 On one of these sherds the incising was made by a sharp point and on 

 the other by a narrow but rounded point. The single sherd in the same 

 picture with the stamped design of small squares is not matched by any 

 of the sherds in the Ceramic Repository from this site. Also in the 

 same figure are three sherds with raised circles which were probably 

 caused by pressure from the inside while the clay was still moist. 

 These sherds also have smoothed body surfaces, which is another 

 unusual characteristic. 



