SITE NAME OR SITE NUMBER: Paul Mitchell

VESSEL NO.: 6-2-66, Burial 29

VESSEL FORM: Jar with four strap handles (25 x 14 mm in height and width) and four lip tabs (each with two “ears”)

NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog

RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and rounded lip

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

INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: very dark grayish-brown

EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base

WALL THICKNESS (IN MM): rim, 4.3 mm

INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed

EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none

HEIGHT (IN CM): 8.9

ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 7.6

DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 7.0

BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 3.7; circular and flat

ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 0.4

DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The rim has three closely-spaced rows of fingernail punctations that simulate neck bands. There are also four vertical rows of two appliqued nodes on the rim underneath the strap handles.

PIGMENT USE AND LOCATION ON VESSEL: none

TYPE AND VARIETY (IF KNOWN): cf. Nash Neck Banded

Nash Neck Banded jar in Burial 29 at the Paul Mitchell site (41BW4).