griffin] ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY OF NORRIS BASIN 291 



Handles and Lugs 



One of the outstanding characteristics of the pottery from this 

 site is the large number of loop handles and sherds showing the 

 place of attachment for loop handles. In the study collection there is 

 a total of 193 pieces that were classed as loop handles. Of these 

 82 are listed and described in Chart XXXV. There are 88 frag- 

 ments of handles which were divided as to the shape of the cross 

 section of the handle. Forty-eight of these were round and 40 were 

 oval. Thirty of the fragments that were round in cross section were 

 hole tempered and 18 were not hole tempered. Twenty-seven of the 

 oval-shaped fragments were hole tempered and 13 were not hole 

 tempered. Shoulder sections to which loop handles had been at- 

 tached numbered 23 and of these 12 were hole tempered and 11 still 

 retained the shell particles in the clay matrix. Approximately 70 

 percent of the loop -handle fragments were hole tempered, which is 

 a higher percentage than was found on the type of rim sherd to 

 which the handles were undoubtedly attached. 



An accompanying characteristic to the prevalence of hole temper- 

 ing is the softness of the loop handles. The 82 loop handles con- 

 tained 47 (57 percent) that could be scratched by gypsum. By ex- 

 amining Chart XXXV it will be seen that the last 18 sherds, which 

 in the main carry lug handles, have only three pieces with a hard- 

 ness of 2 and that only two sherds are hole tempered. Most of this 

 last group would be more typical at Site ISTo. 11. The texture of the 

 sherds is medium fine. 



When the rim shape was discernible it was predominantly straight, 

 with 28 percent being semiflaring. The lips are usually flattened 

 and rounded, but the lips of the last group of sherds have a stronger 

 percentage of rounded and narrowed and rounded contours than the 

 loop-handle sherds at this site. 



For the majority of the sherds the color range is from a dark choco- 

 late brown to reddish brown and dark gray, while for the atypical 

 sherds the common color is a lighter tannish gray. 



Many of the handles have become separated from the rim and 

 hence the measurements of that section and of the lip could be taken 

 only in a relatively small number of cases. The lower portion of 

 the handle usually was joined to the shoulder area by riveting. The 

 upper part was attached to the rim-lip area by molding. In a num- 

 ber of observable cases instead of the handle itself being molded 

 onto the body and forming the junction in that manner, it was 

 very loosely attached to the place of junction and additional clay was 

 used to make the bond. The first 33 handles were so formed that they 

 projected above the level of the lip and were shaped into different 

 knob-like forms. The first sherd in plate 45, «, shows the button top, 



