A Weeden Island Burial Mound - Open site which contains PDF ...

In the fill to the mound, outside the cache area, 320
study sherds were cataloged. Small, eroded, and indetertrinate
specimens were discarded. The sample here was taken from survey
squares definitely separated from the cache concentration.
Again, the Plain uare is by far the largest element, 145
or 46.7% of the total. The characteristics were the same as the
Plain ware found in the cache.
The second largest category in moundfill was the
Complicated Stamped, Twenty-nine percent of the total belongs
to this class. The proportions of the large, sprawly, poorly
impressed stamped variety to the small neatly executed stamp is
about the same as that observed in the pottery cache on east
mound periphery, that is 20.9% of the large variety and 8.7% of
the small stamp. Rims are all small folded or rounded. The
shoulder portion of the vessel is occasionally plain with the
stamp extending over the body, Zoning is definitely a feature
of the Complicated Stamped ware.
Check Stamped becomes the third largest class with 10.6%
of the total. Small folded rims, with occasional incised lines
at the base of the rim to mark off the check-stamped body area,
are found here as in the check-stamped sherds from the cache.
Incised sherds at 2.9% of the total, punctated at 5,4%,
and Red Painted at 5.1%, make up the minority groups.
-18-