. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. EXCAVATIONS AT DIE KELDERS, SOUTH AFRICA 165 the boss and spout has, however, decoration in the form of ten dragged bands on the spout neck above the boss and two bands of impressed dots on both sides of the spout, whereas the layer 2 pot has only decorated bosses and rim. Spouted pots represent only 6,4 per cent of the material studied by Rudner (1968: 456), who also reports that their maximum occurrence (15,9%) is on the south-western Cape coast. The remainder of the sherds are from quite another c
. Annals of the South African Museum = Annale van die Suid-Afrikaanse Museum. Natural history. EXCAVATIONS AT DIE KELDERS, SOUTH AFRICA 165 the boss and spout has, however, decoration in the form of ten dragged bands on the spout neck above the boss and two bands of impressed dots on both sides of the spout, whereas the layer 2 pot has only decorated bosses and rim. Spouted pots represent only 6,4 per cent of the material studied by Rudner (1968: 456), who also reports that their maximum occurrence (15,9%) is on the south-western Cape coast. The remainder of the sherds are from quite another class of pot and include the spout fragment shown in Figure 33. The sherds in this group appear to have come from larger, less well-made vessels than the reconstructed pot. They are for the most part black, unburnished and partly coated with car- bonized material, which can be seen on the illustrated spout fragment (Fig. 33). Scrapings of the carbonized material were submitted to the Department of Biochemistry of the University of Cape Town for analysis and possible identi-. Fig. 30. Layer 2 pot no. 1. SAM-AA154. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original South African Museum. Cape Town : The Museum
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