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Figure 25. Spanish Wood (O2): Pottery characteristics.
(by modeling, Howard meant lugs or handles with anthropomorphic or zoomorphic
representations). Apart from lugs and handles, shoulders provided the
“main areas of decoration.” Here incised designs were mainly “groups of alternating,
obliquely parallel lines.” “Ridges or fillets were frequently applied
along the outer surface of the rim.” The shapes of the pots were predominantly
round bowls and boat- shaped vessels. The latter “are oval in outline, viewed
from above, and terminate at either end with elevated handles.” All writers have
concurred in regarding this style as corresponding to the Meillacan in a broader
Caribbean context (Rouse 1992).
The Lee Collection contains material from 120 of the open- air sites and 24
of the caves. The material from the open- air sites is unevenly distributed, in
that some excavated locations, for example, Rodney’s House (S5) and Upton
(A43), are very poorly represented, or not at all, whereas other collections come
from sites that have now been destroyed, for example, Naggo Head (S12). Fortlands
(A1) and Round Hill (C1) have > 2,000 artifacts, and Rio Bueno (T5)
> 1,000, but other collections are quite small. That does not mean to say that
size is the only criterion of importance. Thus, Passley Gardens (P1), mapped by
Lee in 1982, contains only 23 ceramics and one net sinker. Nonetheless, it is so