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beads at 11.4, 11.5, and 11.6. Lee thought they might well have functioned as
spindle whorls, although their proportions are clearly very different from those
illustrated in the CD- ROM at wlc 90–92. Two earthenware plugs, presumably
intended for lip or ear adornment, are at 11.11 and 11.12. Then there are
stone beads and pendants (11.3, 11.8, 11.9) and pierced Oliva and other shells
(11.13–17, 15.12). The chisel at 11.10 comes from EC10 Baalbec cave and
the petaloid celt at 12.3 from E5 Alligator Pond River. The first is of green porphyry
and the second of dark green schist; it was the last such artifact to be collected
by Lee in 1990. Further chisels are illustrated at Figure 12.1–12.2 and
13.2. The first two are of greenstone and are of the type described by Lee as
point and blade, as is the example from Baalbec. The chisel at 13.2 is a doublebladed
variety. It is made of gray gneiss and comes from Gibraltar (not a Lee
mapped site) in St. Ann. The rather unusual artifacts at 12.4 and 12.5 are also
from unmapped sites, Endeavour in St. Ann and Content in St. Elizabeth respectively.
The first is a hook and was evidently made, as Lee put it, on the
blade of a greenstone celt. The second is a wedge made of black metamorphic
rock. The artifact at C13.3 may be described as a rubbing stone, and there is a
round stone ball from Y21 Fort Haldane at 13.5. This site is not represented in
the main inventory.
Three complete pendants are illustrated at Figures 13.1, 13.6, and 13.7. Two
are from mapped sites, whereas the third (13.6) is from another unmapped location,
Pepper in St. Elizabeth. It is of quartz keratophyre, like the example
from C12 Logie Green (AJ 1973, 2:4). Three unfinished or broken pendants
are at 13.4 and 14.1 and 14.2. The example from S12 Naggo Head was recovered
in 1972. It is also of quartz keratophyre, and was evidently broken at the
top. From Y4 Rio Nuevo comes a quartz object described by Lee as an “unfinished
pendant or bead” since it is not pierced (AJ 1977, 2:3). The example from
T1 New Forest is of buff- colored marble, with a fracture across the base indicating
that “some additional length has been lost.” The decoration in the form
of curved lines is said to resemble “patterns known from Chicoid style pottery
from Hispaniola” (AJ 1973, 2:2). Also illustrated are six stone beads of different
types (14.4, 14.5, 14.6, and 14.8), a grooved shell object that was evidently
intended as a pendant (14.3), and an earthenware plug of uncertain purpose
(14.7) since its size is so much greater than the probable lip or ear plugs from
M4 (11.11 and 11.12). A further celt is at 14.9. This is from 012 Green Wall
and is of whitish flint, flaked but not polished, in both respects therefore unusual.
The sandstone head from C7 Harmony Hall is at 14.10.
Further examples of pottery, this time from a White Marl context, are at