Pottery from the West Village
Detailed description of the Pottery p.27
P 29. Ornamented bowl. Type XV
Max. height 3.75 in. max. ext. diam. of rim 5.75 in. max. ext. diam. of
body 6.25 in. max.
ext. diam. of base 5 in. thickness of base 0.25 in.
Ware heavy and hard-baked, max. tlijckness 0.4l in. Paste dark grey, mixed with large quantity of fine quartz sand or grit. Ext. surface greyish-buff colour, much weathered and gritty to the touch. Int. surface grey, fairly smooth but gritty.
Ornamented
with a waved band shaded with cross-hatching. Bordered above by a single
girth groove and below by two waved lines shaded with diagonal lines.
The ornament is shown in Fig. 5.
Found in Mound XIII, on the third or fourth floor, 9 ft. S.F. of the c.p.
3, 1913.
Fig. 6 gives a section of this bowl.8
P 31. Large fragment of ornamented bowl.Type III.
Max. ext. diam. of rim 0.56 in. ; max. ext.diam. of body 7 in. ; diam.
of base 3.62 in.
Ware hard-baked and heavy. Paste greycolour, mixed with fine quartz grains
and sand.
Ext. surface nearly black, smooth and burnished.Int. surface dark grey,
uneven, gritty to the touch. rim nearly vertical,1I in. in depth, lip
round, with a girth groove on inner surface.
Ornamented with reversed curves shapedlike notes of interrogation, the
spaces between being shaded with cross-hatching, and bordered above and
below by three girth grooves.
Found in Mound XIII, on the first floor,7.5 ft W of the c.p. 3,1913.
Figured in, Plate VI.
P 32. Fragment of small bowl. Type XXVIII.
Max. diam. of rim 5.62 in. max. diam. of body 6.62 in.
Rim concave, lip beaded and has girth groove on inner surface. Ware hard-baked
and heavy,
thickness varies from 0.25 in. to 0.31in. Paste mixed with grains of culcite.
Ext. surface brownish-black, smooth where not weathered. Int. surface
reddish-brown, gritty to the touch.
Ornamented below the rim with a narrow band shaded diagonally and a festooned
design shaded with cross-hatching.
Found in Mound XIII, on the second floor, 12.5 ft. S. of the c.p. 3, 1913.
Figured in Plate VI
8 The other sections
in Fig. 6 are of vessels found in the West Village, which are not here
described.