Named after the Irene site, 9Ch1, in the northern portion of Savannah excavated in the late 1930s.
Plain grit-tempered pottery.
Known vessel forms include wide-mouthed bowls, hemispherical bowls and elongated globular vessels.
Rims are incurving, straight, or flared.
Lips are rounded or squared.
Bases are round or flat.
Late Mississippian; Early Lamar Irene period.
The name for this type is not used anywhere else but on the Georgia Coast.
Caldwell and Waring 1939a:2.
Caldwell and McCann 1941:48-49.