Joseph Caldwell and Antonio Waring named this type base upon the 1930's WPA work at the Deptford Site, 9Ch2, in Chatham County on the Georgia Coast.
Deptford Bold Check Stamped and Deptford Check Stamped are the same type.
By the 1960's Wauchope was using the name Deptford Check Stamped for the non-linear check stamped pottery.
This is a fine to medium quartz grit-tempered check stamped pottery.
The exteriors of the vessels are entirely covered with checks and are orange buff or dark gray to black in color.
The interior of the vessels are gritty, often having marks from smoothing implements visible.
The body of the vessel is cylindrical with a slight shoulder and a round or conoidal base
Rims are straight to slightly flared
Some vessels have tetrapod supports.
Middle Woodland
The distribution of this type ranges from the St. Johns River in northeastern Florida, well into South Carolina
It is also to be found inland up the Savannah and Altamaha Rivers.
Past the Fall Line it is more commonly called Cartersville Check Stamped.
Caldwell and Waring 1939b:1.
Willey 1949:357
Ggriggin and Sears 1950.
Goggin 1952:105.
Wimberly 1960:83-86.
DePratter 1991:170-171.