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The rims of about eighty different pots are carried up in rounded, 
peak-like projections (*See Plate III, figures 12, 13, 15, and 16; Plate IV, 
figures 3, 10, and 13; Plate V, figures 4 and 5; Plate VI, figures 3, 4, 7, 9, 
and 11; Plate VII, figures 5, 10, and 11; Plate VIII, figure 8; Plate IX, 
figures 7 and 8; Plate X, figure 6; Plate XI, figure 6; Plate XII, figures 8 
and 9; Plate XIII, figures 5, 6, and 11; and Plate XIV, figures 1, 2, 5, 11, 13, 
17, 19, and 20). The usual number of projections is four, but one pot seems 
to have had as many as six. On another fragment the projections are 
about 1^ inches apart and give the top of the rim a scalloped appearance. 
Even some of the smaller pots had these elevations. 
With few exceptions the pots are round-mouthed. A projecting lip, 
like the one seen in Plate XIV, figure 18, gave the mouth an almond or 
egg shape, and the elevations on the rims of others, as those in Plate III, 
figure 15, and Plate VIII, figure 8, made it square or diamond-shaped. 
The mouth of the small pot, seen in Plate III, figure 12, is oval. 
The thickness of the rims varies from three-sixteenths to about three- 
fourths inch, the majority being about three-eighths inch. Fragments of 
the bodies run from about one-eighth to seven-eighths inch in thickness, 
the majority being three-eighths. 
Although the outer contour of the pots was even and symmetrical, 
the inner surface was mostly uneven; the walls varying in thickness in 
different parts of the same vessel. Thus, in many pots, the rim was thick, 
with the wall becoming thinner in the neck, thicker in the shoulder, then 
thinner in the body nearly to the bottom, where it again gradually became 
in many cases thicker to its maximum. Even the thickness of the rim in 
many cases varied in parts of the same pot. 
That painstaking care was taken to produce shapely rims can be seen 
from the cross-sections in Figure 2, some of which are quite ornate. The 
easiest way to finish a rim was to round off the margin as in a, but only 
forty-two, or about 4 per cent of the pots, had margins rounded in this 
way, and they were mainly small, crude vessels. Six hundred and four, or 
about 56 per cent of the pots, had the rim margins squared off (6, d , h, j, 
k, and l). In two hundred and two, or about 11 per cent of the pots, the 
margins sloped either to the inside or outside of the rims, as in c, g, q, r, 
and s. Sixty pots, or about 5? per cent, had the margins finished off 
somewhat like those seen in i and n. A very few had the rim margin 
stepped, as in o; in a few others it was shouldered, as in p, q, r, and s. In 
some the inner angle of the rim is dilated, as shown in the cross-sections in 
d and s. The cross-section in h shows a rim with both angles dilated. 
Very few fragments have smooth outside surfaces. Many retain the 
impressions, or vestiges of the impressions, left by the welding or mal- 
leating tools, referred to below. The inside surface of the pots is more 
commonly smooth than the outside. Only a few, however, are very smooth. 
The inside surface of many fragments is granular, and a few show this 
granular or rough surface on the outside also. 
The colour of the inside and outside surfaces of the pots varies from 
light buff to dark reddish brown, and from light grey to black. In many 
cases it varies in a single pot, probably owing to unevenness of firing. The 
largest proportion of fragments are buff or red on the outside, the next 
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