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on it, are clearly shown in the largest piece (figure 1), in another from 
heap A, and in one of the two from heap D. Though this does not prove, 
it strongly suggests, that these are pot bottoms rather than hollow legs, 
which are unknown in the region. This is corroborated by Patterson 
(a, page 252) who states that one piece in his collection shows that the 
bottom of the pot had been prolonged to a blunt point. Besides this, 
Piers (a, page 117) states that the pottery found at various places in Nova 
Scotia shows evidence that at least some of the pots were obtusely pointed 
at the bottom. Such pointed bottoms are found along the coast as far 
south as North Carolina on the Atlantic coast. Dixon (page 6) states 
that, as one goes eastward from the region of the Maine-New Hampshire 
boundary, the form of the base changes and becomes rounded rather 
than conical. 
Handles or lugs were not found, unless the broken projection on the 
fragment of pottery mentioned above, on page 37, and illustrated in figure 
3, is part of one, but Patterson (a, page 252) states that some pieces in 
his collection have ears, showing that they were suspended over the fire. 
Dixon (page 6) states that in the Maritime Provinces some form of lug 
or ear is not uncommon, but that it is either rare or lacking in southern 
New England. No fragments show punched or drilled perforations. 
One (Plate IX, figure 5) has a hole gouged in it; but the hole does not seem 
to have been made in the pottery to assist in suspending the pot or in 
lashing a cracked part together. 
The rims of the pots were all practically straight or without much 
flare, although Dixon (page 6) states that, as one goes eastward from the 
region of the Maine-New Hampshire boundary, the prevalence of an 
outcurved lip becomes more notable. Ninety fragments of rims were 
found (Plate VIII, figure 11, Plate IX, figures 1-3, Plate X, figures 2-5, 
7, 8, 11-16, 22, 26, and Plate XI, figures 1-4, 7, 10, 11, 15). Of five hundred 
and sixty-five fragments of pottery found in heap A, forty-one were frag- 
ments of rims, and of these thirty-seven, or over 90 per cent, were almost 
straight, whereas only four, or less than 10 per cent, have such a slight 
flare as to be practically straight. Of the thirty-five fragments of rims 
found in heap D, all were almost straight. These represent only sixteen 
pots, as in one case, for instance, eleven pieces are of one pot. Of four 
pieces found in heap K, one is a fragment of a straight rim; of sixteen 
found in heap L, one is of a nearly straight rim; of one hundred and two 
found in heap M, twelve are of straight rims; and of twenty pieces found 
in heap N, one is of a straight rim. The edge of the rim in some cases 
is flat (Plate IX, figure 2, and Plate X, figures 2, 7), and the rims of some 
are scalloped or waved (Plate X, figures 12, 13, 16). 
Decoration may be seen on many of the fragments; for instance, 
out of five hundred and sixty-five fragments from heap A, two hundred and 
sixty-seven, or over 47 per cent, are decorated; and out of six hundred and 
three fragments from heap D, two hundred and thirty-three, or over 38 
per cent, are decorated. As one hundred and eight of the decorated 
fragments from heap D belong to one pot, fifty-eight to another, two to a 
third, and sixty-five are unassignable pieces, there are not over sixty-eight 
decorated pots indicated by our evidence and perhaps a much smaller 
number, though more than four. There are too many decorated pieces, 
