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2018

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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Hatchel (41BW3)

VESSEL NO.: 6-3-204; Burial 4 in the platform mound

VESSEL FORM: Bottle with a spool neck

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and rounded lip

CORE COLOR: B (fired and cooled in a reducing environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark grayish-brown; fire clouds on the rim and body

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 4.0 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 7.6

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 2.5

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 2.6; maximum body diameter is 6.4 cm

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 2.6 cm; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.1

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The vessel body has an engraved meandering scroll with outward-pointing excised tick marks. Above and below the meandering scroll lines are curvilinear cross-hatched engraved zones with hatched tips (nearest the scroll line). Below the tips of each of the cross-hatched and hatched zones are single negative circle elements.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Hodges Engraved, var. Candler (Schambach and Miller 1984:122)

Hodges Engraved, var. Candler bottle in Burial 4 in the platform mound at the Hatchel site. Photograph courtesy of TARL.

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Keywords

American Southeast, Caddo, Ceramic, Pottery, Archaeology, Anthropology

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