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EARTHENWARE OF 



gest any tenable theory for their presence as a superficial deposit or cache in the side 

 of a mound unassociated with human remains. 



Orange Mound. — Orange mound is a somewhat crescent-shaped mass of shells 

 and sand in the centre of which several bodies were inhumed. 1 Pottery of the por- 

 ous variety, stamped and plain, occurs on the surface and in the superficial loam to 

 a foot in depth. From one foot in depth to a depth of about five feet pottery of a 

 distinct type, the midden ware, occurs imbedded in Ampullaria shells and associated 

 with beds of ashes. The remaining 10 feet of deposits were without pottery. This 

 midden ware is rudely made and coarse in texture. It was tempered with vegetable 

 fiber which has now entirely disappeared leaving the mass quite porous. The ves- 

 sels are of medium size, in shape deep bowls or shallow pots, the walls thick, reach- 

 ing in cases nearly I of an inch, and the surfaces roughly rubbed down and deco- 

 rated very generally with archaic patterns of rudely incised lines. In cases the 

 decoration extends over the upper margin of the squarish lip. Typical specimens 



Figs. 21 and 22. Fiber tempered ware with archaic decorations, 

 of the sherds are presented in Figs. 21 and 22. This variety of ware was found in 

 Tick Island and other mounds and always in the shell deposits, and is thought to 

 represent the earliest pottery making period. The lower layers of the deposit are 

 without potteiy. 



1 American Naturalist, July, 1898. 



