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Creation Date
2018
Description
SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Paul Mitchell
VESSEL NO.: 341-464, Burial 21
VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a short /tapered neck
NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog
RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and rounded lip
CORE COLOR: F (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)
INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown
EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: brown; fire clouds on the body
WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 4.9 mm
INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none
EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished
HEIGHT (IN CM): 16.2
ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 3.2
DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 5.3; maximum body diameter is 11.4 cm
BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 5.1; circular and flat
ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.5
DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The upper vessel body is decorated with two horizontal engraved lines.
PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none
TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Hickory Engraved
Hickory Engraved bottle in Burial 21 in Mathews excavations at the Paul Mitchell site (41BW4).
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Keywords
American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology
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