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Three hundred and twelve fragments (including nine pieces of rims), 
or 42 per cent of all the fragments, have no ornamentation on the outside. 
It would be difficult to determine what proportion of these plain pieces 
formed part of the same vessels as the decorated fragments. One hundred 
and seventy -three, or 56 per cent of the plain fragments, representing 
probably sixty-five different vessels, are tempered with shell; fifty frag- 
ments, or 16 per eent, probably representing twenty-one different vessels, 
show stone tempering, and eighty-nine fragments, or 25 per cent, and 
probably representing twenty-four different pots, have no recognizable 
tempering material. Although 63 per cent of the total number of frag- 
ments containing shell tempering lack ornamentation, it is hardly probable 
that the pottery tempered with stone was more readily ornamented than 
that tempered with shell. May not this lack of ornamentation of a large 
proportion of shell-tempered ware, therefore, be due to the fact that it 
was made on the coast, where the potters perhaps had less time for aesthetic 
treatment than they had in the interior, where the stone-tempered pottery 
may have been made? 
The decoration of the pottery from this shell-heap is not very elaborate, 
neither is there a great variety of patterns. Many of the pots seem to 
have had the entire outside ornamented. Decoration was confined to 
round and angular depressions made with a stylus, trailed or impressed 
lines produced with pointed or blunt tools, and patterning with cord-wound 
twigs. Sometimes all three methods of decoration occur on one pot. 
None is decorated with a rocking stamp. None has impressed circles 
like those on pottery from the Roebuck site, in Grenville county, Ontario. 
There is also no finger-nail decoration, although one fragment shows on 
the inside distinct impressions of the nail of the potter (Plate XXV, figure 
7). 
Fourteen fragments, representing twelve different vessels, are decor- 
ated with stylus impressions. In three fragments, belonging to two dif- 
ferent pots, this is the only kind of decoration (Plate XXV, figure 12). 
In twelve fragments it occurs in combination with patterns produced with 
cord-wound twigs (Plate XXV, figures II, 13, 14, Plate XXVI, figures 1, 
7, 15, 16, and Plate XXVII, figure 1), four of these having in addition 
impressed lines (Plate XXV, figures 21, 22). A few fragments have the 
impressions or pits arranged in a crude pattern (Plate XXV, figure 12). 
Most of the round pits were produced with an obtusely pointed stylus, 
whereas the angular pits seem to have been made with some crude unfinished 
tool, probably of wood. In one fragment the pits are very deep, one of 
them nearly penetrating the wall of the pot (Plate XXV, figure 11). 
Only ten fragments, belonging to seven different vessels, bear impressed 
lines. Eight of these had other decoration. In three fragments of one 
pot (Plate XXV, figure 15) the lines look as if a cord-wound twig had 
been dragged along sidewise, producing an almost continuous line. In 
other fragments (Plate XXV, figure 16) short linear depressions seem to 
have been made in a similar way. In the fragment illustrated on Plate 
XXV, figure 19, the lines are deep and narrow and look as if they had 
been made with some sharp-edged tool. In a few other fragments, 
as on Plate XXV, figure 20, the impressed lines are combined with patterns 
made with cord-wound twugs and stylus impressions. In five fragments, 
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