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COOKING POTS AND FOOD VESSELS. 



Fig. 34 represents a carefully wrought and highly finished example of 

 these stones for cooking food. Nearly rectangular in shape, one inch in 

 thickness, and with more prominently raised margins than the others, 

 this specimen may be considered as typical of this form of domestic uten- 

 sil. It shows distinctly on the under side, and upon the end without the 

 rim, marks of the fire By the blackening of the surface. This example 

 measures at the upper or perforated end 7 inches in width ; the sides are 

 10 inches each in length, and the width at the broader end is also 10 inches. 

 FlG - 34 - Another of these cooking uten- 



sils, while similar in general outline, 

 is even smoother upon the upper 

 side, and has the marginal elevated 

 ridge extending around the four 

 sides, which are slightly curved out- 

 ward, the perforated end being most 

 nearly straight. This specimen is 

 quite thin, and slopes toward the 

 edge at one of the lower corners, 

 giving it the appearance of having 

 become warped. It measures 6 

 inches in width at the upper end ; 

 Steatite plate or baking stone,*. is 12 inches in length on one side, 



and 11.5 inches on the other; width at the lower end, 10 inches. 



Another of these cooking utensils is of a much plainer pattern, and 

 is probably a fragment of a large pot, squared a.nd smoothed along the 

 margins. The upper surface is concave. The upper or perforated end is 

 narrower than the other, and the perforation, which is about .75 of an inch 

 in diameter, is quite sloping at the circumference, being in general ap- 

 pearance a repetition on a larger scale of the countersunk holes in the 

 so-called "twisting stones," and in many gorgets. One of the lower cor- 

 ners has been broken off, leaving an even, oblique fracture. The measure- 

 ments of this specimen are as follows : Width of the perforated end, 2.5 

 inches; of the sides, which have a uniform outward curve, 9 inches; width 

 of the end, 4.5 inches. 



