1 BOX OF CRUSHED/FROM AVONDALE
Includes a few rock sherds.
Includes a small bag that contains a scraper; the bag reads "dirt pit of red ochre area"
Lid of box reads: Scrap sherds etc. from Avondale Bluff under burial partly exposed by a power shovel. See Shippee notes, see note inside.
Note inside reads: Found with the cord roughened pot fragment that Mett restored in 1/2 its form. There were not fitted into the restored vessel.
North Avondale Mound 23CL23 April 29, 1950 - Pottery from 2.6 ft to 3.0 ft Occurred below and to west of 2 articulated (flexed) legs of a burial. Burial is at 2.3 to 2.4 ft. This burial and 2 or more are at a place at west edge of North Mound missed in 1935. Includes a drawing.
Reverse of the note reads:
Recovered rim, cord rfg. pot is in loess like soil at top of loess and this soil about pot is light brown while in its present very moist stage. A hard 6" layer over lays it. Above that is mixed soil to present surface and likely was disturbed when this mound was wrecked by the farm boys and Mr. Player. Sherds of the base could not be fitted together. T his pottery could not be joined to the rest of the vessel found under the level of the bones. The restored 1/2 vessel is in Shippee collection
