SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Paul Mitchell

VESSEL NO.: 341-449, Burial 16

VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and rounded lip

CORE COLOR: B (fired and cooled in a reducing environment)

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark grayish-brown; fire clouds on the rim and base

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 4.6 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished

HEIGHT (IN CM): 5.3

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 15.2

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 15.0

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 10.2; circular and rounded

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.5

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The upper part of the rim is decorated with three equally-spaced horizontal engraved lines. The lower part of the rim has four narrow horizontal and vertical engraved scroll zones that are filled at one end with a row of excised tool punctations and the remainder are filled with either diagonal or diagonal opposed engraved lines.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): Barkman Engraved

Barkman Engraved carinated bowl in Burial 16 in Mathews excavations at the Paul Mitchell site (41BW4).