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POTTERY. PL. 13, 14. 



About 300 fragments of pottery were found within, or outside of the Retreat, and 

 in some cases a piece apparently thrown out when a vessel was broken, could be fitted 

 to another found inside ; the finest example (PI. 14, Fig. 9), was in four pieces, one 

 from the inside and three from the earth outside. * ■ 



The kinds are all more or less burnt ; in some the burning from the inside is 

 blackened for some depth, when the outside is reddish or yellowish, like a slightly burnt 

 brick. Brown of various shades is a common color, and seems to belong to the more 

 highly burnt, the thinnest, and most delicately made variety. 



The material is clay alone, or clay mixed with finely broken mussel shells (PL 

 13, Fig. 1 and 21), or with grains of broken quartz (PI. 11, Fig. 1). 



In a few cases the exterioi- is smooth (PI 13, Fig. 1), but the upper part of most 

 of the vessels was marked with impressed lines and dots variously ai'ranged for orna- 

 ment, drawn before drying, apparently with the end of a small stick, quill, or bone ; 

 or impressed at right angles as with cords and knots (PI. 11, Fig. 2), giving a netted 

 appearance ; also with a row or sevei'al rows left standing on an ear of maize (PI. 11, 

 Figs. 3, 1), or perhaps with the cob or spike. The inside of the margin or lip is 

 rarely marked or ornamented (PI. 14, Figs. 85, 96), and when the extreme edge is 

 thick enough to admit of it (as in PI. 13, Fig. 22, PI. 14, Figs. 3, 4, 5, 7), this part may 

 have ornamental impressions. 



When a fragment wants the original margin, its upper part can bo sometimes 

 told by a curve indicating a widening towards the mouth, as in PI. 13, Figs. 1, 3, 4, 

 5, 6, 8, 10. 11. 



The margin is present in Figs. 9, 12, 13, 16, 19, 20, 22, of PI. 13 ; and in 1, 2, 3, 

 4, 5, 7, 9, of PI. 14. The presence of part of the margin shows the direction of the 

 lines in PI. 13, Fig. 20, but nothing remains to indicate that they were horizontal in 

 the fragment Fig. 21. 



The external impressions on the specimen PI. 13, Fig. 12, i-esemble the row on 

 the inside margin of Fig. 2a,, PI. 14. 



The thickness of the ])ieces varies from g to about | of an inch : the somewhat 

 irregular curve of a large fragment indicates a vessel 13 inches in diameter — a size 

 which PI. 14, Fig. 1, 2, 10, may have reached. PI. 14, Fig. 6, represents a pot about 

 7 inches in diameter, and PI. 14, Fig. 9, one of about 5,| inches. 



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Figure 6, represents a piece of reddish, under-burnt pottery, with two perforations 

 countersunk from the outside, and being intended for the reception of carrying-strings, 



A. p. S. VOL. XV. 4d. 



