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2018

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SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Hatchel (41BW3)

VESSEL NO.: 6-1-30; Burial Plot 2, Burial 23

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

RIM AND LIP FORM: Inverted rim and rounded, exterior folded lip

CORE COLOR: G (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: black

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark reddish-brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 5.1 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished on the rim; smoothed on the body

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 7.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 12.2

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 13.0

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 5.1 cm; circular and rounded

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.51

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim panel has an engraved meandering scroll motif marked by a scroll center line with downward-pointing excised tick marks. The upper and lower scroll fill zones have hatched and cross-hatched bracket elements that form a series of negative ovals in the scroll fill zones.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

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

Hodges Engraved, var. Armour carinated bowl (6-1-30) in Burial 23 in Burial Plot 2 at the Hatchel site. Photograph courtesy of TARL.

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Keywords

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

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