SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Keith

VESSEL NO.: Burial 1, Pot 7

NON-PLASTICS: bone and grog

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded, exterior folded lip

CORE COLOR: F (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown (5YR 5/4)

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-brown (5YR 4/4); fire clouding

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 6.8 mm, rim

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed on the body and burnished on the rim

HEIGHT (IN CM): 8.0

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 18.0

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 15.8

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 6.0

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.86 liters

DECORATION: The rim has a simplified engraved scroll and circle motif repeated two times around the vessel. The scroll elements resemble the continuous scroll (see Thurmond 1990), but with scroll fill zones comprised only of excised triangles, and there are excised triangles on the central vertical engraved line of the scroll. The scroll elements alternate with engraved circles, each with small central excised diamonds within them.

TYPE: Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified

Ripley Engraved, var. unspecified carinated bowl, Burial 1, Pot 7, Keith site.