Title
Preview
Creation Date
2019
Description
SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Battle Place
CONTEXT INFORMATION: From a grave (Burial 1) in Burial Plot 3 (Martin 1939). Associated in the grave with V-2007, V-2008, and V-2010 to V-2013.
ACCESSION NO.: 5425-759
VESSEL NO.: V-2009
NON-PLASTICS: grog
VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a globular body
RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded lip
CORE COLOR: F (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)
INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: strong brown
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: strong brown
WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 5.4 mm, rim
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the upper neck
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the body and neck
HEIGHT (IN CM): 19.8
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 4.9
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 4.8; 11.3 cm wide at its widest point on the vessel body
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 9.5
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.75 liters
DECORATION: The top and bottom of the vessel body have either two or three horizontal engraved lines. The remainder of the body has a series of three engraved concentric circles and hatched vertical panels. Each concentric circle is different: the first has four concentric circles, the outer two forming a narrow hatched band and the inner two having small pendant half circles; the second has two concentric circles, the outer engraved circle having small pendant half circles; and the third has three concentric circles, with the inner two circles having small pendant circles.
TYPE: cf. Handy Engraved
Figure A1-93. cf. Handy Engraved bottle (5425-759).
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Keywords
American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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