Named by Joseph Caldwell based upon work in the Allatoona Reservoir.
Historic Cherokee pottery style.
Check stamped pottery with a medium grit-tempered paste.
The stamping is usually fairly deeply applied.
The sherds are a little thicker and usually have a grayish to blackish color indicating that they were probably fired in a reducing atmosphere rather than in an oxidizing atmosphere.
The color of these sherds is very diagnostic, because at no other period do you have gray to black to white check-stamped pottery.
After the stamping a notched, applique rim strip was added to the vessel.
Vessel form is globular with flattened bottoms and slightly flaring rims.
18th-19th century A.D.
This type is found in northwestern Georgia.
The Cherokee were very late moving into northwestern Georgia.
It was after 1770, during the American Revolution when their homeland was broken up, particularly northwestern South Carolina and northeastern Georgia.
There is similar material found in northeastern Georgia that occurred before the 18th century, but most people have not called this pottery Boyd Check Stamped.
There is a question of what we should call Cherokee check stamped pottery from northeastern Georgia.
Perhaps a new name is needed!
Boyd Check Stamped as a pottery type applies to northwestern Georgia.
Caldwell, Joseph R. 1955a:279.