SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: B. J. Horton

VESSEL NO.: Burial 2, Pot 3

NON-PLASTICS: 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-yellow (7.5YR 6/6)

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: reddish-yellow (7.5YR 6/6); fire clouding on the base; organic residue on the body

WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): 6.5 mm, rim; 7.1 mm, body

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

HEIGHT (IN CM): 14.5

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 23.4

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 23.3

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM): 10.2

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 3.0 liters

DECORATION: The rim has an engraved scroll and circle motif (Thurmond 1990) repeated four times around the vessel. The central circle has a smaller circle within it that has opposed hatched triangles. The outer scroll fill zone and central slanting scroll line of the motif have excised and hatched pendant triangles on them, as would otherwise be used on the engraved pendant triangle motif (see Thurmond 1990).

TYPE: cf. Ripley Engraved, var. Galt

Ripley Engraved, var. Galt carinated bowl, Burial 2, Pot 3, B. J. Horton site.