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or smeared Complicated Stamps, probably of Swift Creek derivation
but part of a residual Beeden Island complex. Of the others,
six showed crude parallel incised lines around the rim. There
was one zoned red painted sherd, and two with large diffuse
punotates.
The surface collection from 9Dr2, Bower Plantation, thus
exhibits much the same picture as Aale’s Plantation Site, with
a snail minority of punctates, incised, and painted sherds
reminisoent of Reeden Island I and II site markers, as described
in the literature from northwest Florida. Over 95% of the
total series falls into the small check stamped (Dakulla), the
plain bowls, and the eRoughenede ware. The tendency to larger
folds, “pleating” in broad ribbons, with thickening in the upper
rim portions, has been noted.
A larger proportion of the check stamped v&e showed a
tendency to increase in size and the rims here were also thickened
in the upper portions with broader flat lip sections. Grooving
or indenting lines to demarcate the thickened rims occurred
frequently. All of these features seem to mark a stylistic trend
in the lower Flint in terms of rim treatment and general pottery
morphology, leading consistently toward noroative Fort Ralton
characteristics.
Still, Bower Plantation does not represent a Fort Dalton
facies, and one has only a subjective impression of a trend in
that direction. Actually, one peroeives a further modification
or change along the save lines show in ifale’s handing,