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[[underline]] Chapter XVI. [[/underline]] 348.

[[underline]] Potsherds. [[/underline]]
   While I explored and recorded the topography of the site and ran my surveys, with our rickshaw coolie to help me, Mr. Tung carefully searched the area inside the rampart for ancient potsherds.  These, quite naturally in view of the age-long and intensive cultivation that had been going on, were exceedingly scarce and widely scattered, so that no two examples occurred anywhere near eachother.  Eventually, however, he was able to pick up four shards, the largest barely 9 [[underline]] cm. [[/underline]] long, the others considerably less.
   Mr. Tung's first find, one of his smaller specimens, was a fragment of coarse, poorly fired, unglazed pottery, reddish-buff in hue and almost exactly 1 [[underline]] cm. [[/underline]] thick.  It seemed, as far as we could tell, not to have been "thrown" on the wheel, but to have been made by the coiling process. Its exterior bore a "textile" impression (of bark-cloth? See page 172 and footnote 166, on same page); while its inner or concave isde was quite smooth and unmarked in any way.
  Another fragment was grayish-buff in color and slightly thinner and rather finer in texture than the preceding.  It also was unglazed and showed no trace of painted decoration, but bore on its outer or convex side a simple rectilinear pattern, partly incised and partly impressed. Of this, the primary element was a plain and continuous band about 1 [[underline]] cm. [[/underline]] wide---apparently part of the original surface of the vessel after the latter had been shaped and smoothed but not yet fired.  On either side of this band, at right angles to it, was a series of shallow grooves, apparently incised with some bluntly pointed instrument.  These grooves were fairly closely spaced; and their distal ends projected outward ([[underline]] i.e. [[/underline]] away from the band) as far as the broken edges of the shard and of course for an unknown distance beyond it.
  What little remained of this design reminded me of one sometimes