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had been a srrall sand burial’ sound, some 25~ feet in diameter,
which had yielded deteriorated human burials and some pottery.
It could not be determined if he had encountered a “cache*’ with
broken mortuary ware as found at the Lake Douglas Round.
Duch of the surface collection had to be eliminated as
too eroded and “beat up” to identify. Of the balance, 378 study
sherds, 52.946 was small check stamped very similar to Vakulla
Check encountered elsewhere on the lower Flint. It was difficult
in the laboratory to distinguish between “Plain Smootha and the
“Roughened” categories, as all of the pottery bad been repeatedly
churned up in the cultivation of the old plantation field. Row-
ever, examination of the cores and paste cross-sections indicated a
larger percentage of coarse grit temper than had been found in
the pottery from the Lake Douglas Mound (DDr21), a minor site
difference. The rims wsre much the same exoept that a larger
proportion had long, flattened ‘Vibbon-like” pleats or exhibited
a tendency to be thickened in the upper rim with a broad flat lip.
This is a feature of the later Fort Iialton pottery. In the end
the analysis yielded 16% for the approximate smooth plain with
granular paste, although the asserhlage did not show the degree
of smoothing or polish found on other lower Flint sites. The
“Roughened” classification was muoh as that described for other
lower Flint sites. Of these, seven appeared to be smoothed over,
or smeared over, stamped sherds.
Of the 15 sherds in the study collection which might be
allocated to a Weeden Island decorative complex, seven were eroded
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