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and exteriorly with relatively constricted orifice or rolled
folds with small scored or indented lines at the rim margins.
Some very short and straight rius, or slightly everted, were
correlated with interior beveling. A number of small check
stamped jars of these types occurred with the pottery cache
in the Lake Douglas burial mound. The ohecks were usually
very small, either squared or oblong (diamond) with contrasting
extremes of neat, clean but shallow stamps and others so lightly
stamped, frequently smoothed over, so that refleoted light was
necessary to observe the oheoks.
The Woughenede category implies a deliberate texturing,
although many sherds were simply eroded or finished coarse or
simply did not receive the careful grooming which produced a
definitely smoothed or burnished ware in the majority of cases.
It is not always easy in handung individual aherds or even
large portions of vessels to determine whether the observed
effect is due to sloppy handling of the moist pot before firing
or whether deliberate texturing, i.e., smearing and smoothing
over a previously stamped or otherwise textured surface is oarried
out. In subsequent study of whole vessels from the Chattahoochee
belonging to the Veeden Island series, and even the earlier
Swift Creek materials, as at Fairchild~s Landing in Seminole
County, vessels showed upper body portions with good stamping
intact and an obliteration through smearing of basal portions.
Also, at several sites in the lower Flint, as much as 3C$ of the
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