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Table 17. Comparison of Indian Pottery from Mount Pleasant
& the Chattahoochee River.
Pottery Type
TOWN TRADER CHATTAHOOCHEE
9EF169 POINT YUCHI TOWN·
Count % COIIDt % COllnt %
Plain 123 83.7 571 86 1525 93
Incised 3 2.0 17 2.5 48 3
Brushed 15 10.2 39 5.9 67 4
Applique sttip 5 3.4 26 3.9 1 0
ConImarlced 0 0 3 0.5 0 0
Kasita Red filmed 0 0 0 0 6 0.4
Pupctated _1 0.6 -ll 1.2. II II
TOTAL 147 664 1647
·Does not include pottery recovered during excavations by Chase or Buscher.
(Source: Schnell 1982; Dickinson and Wayne 1985; Elliott 1991)
categories that probably reflect the types ofweapons they were used with. Following
work by Hamilton, these categories break out as follows: pistol or trade gun, less than 20
mm; trade gun 20-28 mm; carbine 28-34 mm; and musket, greater than 34 mm. Because
several of the gunflints measured exactly 28 mm, an additional category oftrade gun or
carbine had to be created to accomodate them. The results ofthis exercise are shown in
Table 18.
Trade guns were the most common weapon used on both sites, followed next by
carbines. Muskets were more common at New Ebenezer where they comprised 12.9
percent ofthe sample. Some ofthese differences may be attributed to the fact that Rupert
Schrempff apparently produced gunflints from English flint ballast stone. Some ofthe
gunflints classified as musket flints may be late stage production discards. Alternatively,
there may have been more muskets at New Ebenezer than at Mount Pleasant Hamilton
notes that muskets generally were not owned by civilians, but were military weapons.
Both Mount Pleasant and New Ebenezer served military functions. Schrempffs cellar was
located near the fort at New Ebenezer, and some ofthe musket flints may be associated
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