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have thickened rim-lip bands which are notched, but the majority are 

 true horizontal, semicircular rim, or rim-lip lugs. 



The estimated diameters at the lip for representative sherds are: 

 No. 2, 10 inches; No. 19, 12 inches; No. 26, 12.5 inches; No. 28, 10 

 inches; No. 38, 7.5 inches. 



Bowls 



Bowl-rim sherds comprise a large percentage of the fragments of 

 pottery in the study collection from this site. There are 27 sherds of 

 this type. The exterior surface hardness of 85 percent is 2-2.5 and 

 the remainder have a hardness of 2.5. The texture is medium fine 

 and the surface finish except in one case is smooth. Seventy percent 

 of the lips are flattened and rounded and the rest are either rounded 

 or narrowed and rounded. The lip thickness is between 0.5 cm and 

 0.8 cm on 80 percent of the sherds and 90 percent of the rims are from 

 0.6 cm to 0.9 cm thick. Since over half of the interior and exterior 

 surfaces show discoloration from smoke blackening, the bowl sherds 

 have the highest percentage of this characteristic at the site. 



As can be seen on Chart XXVII, quite a number of the sherds 

 have small rim lugs or nodes, some of which may have been frog effigy 

 bowls. (Figs. 69, 70.) Nine of the rims have a rather narrow added 

 rim band which has narrow perpendicular notches. The distance 

 between five of these notches varies on the different sherds from 

 1.6 cm to 5.1 cm, the measurement being made from the bottom of the 

 first and the fifth notch. The horizontal smoothing marks are more 

 clearly visible on these vessels than on the others present at the site. 



The lip diameters for the following sherds are: No. 1, 8 inches; 

 No. 9, 10 inches ; No. 14, 11 inches ; No. 16, 8.5 inches. 



Strap Handles 



There are 13 sherds in the study collection described on Chart 

 XXVIII that are of the type found on plate 117, a. One of the 

 handles in the Ceramic Kepository, Sherd No. 14, is a loop handle, 

 as can be readily seen by contrasting its measurements with the more 

 common type. These handles are all attached to the lip, with the 

 sides of the handles either falling straight from the lip or converg- 

 ing from the lip to about half the length of the handle when their 

 sides become parallel. None of the handles in the study collection 

 are decorated, but the first sherd in the second row of plate 117, a, 

 has two groups of three narrow, shallow, parallel incised lines that 

 cross each other at about a 40° angle near the central part of the 

 handle. Ten out of the 14 sherds described can be scratched by the 

 fingernail and the other four have a hardness of 2.5. The texture i§ 

 medium fine. 



