MCLEOD LINEAR CHECK STAMPED, Late Variety

Background

This type is the same as Deptford Linear Check Stamped.

Named by Steve Wimberly after the McLeod Estate site in Clarke County, Alabama.

This type was included on the Georgia list by Caldwell in 1969 for unknown reasons.

Sorting Criteria

Linear check stamping on sand-tempered pottery.

Ware characteristics for this type are the same as the early variety except that the late variety has widened and flattened rim folds, and neat modeling of rounded rim folds.

Chronological Range

Middle Woodland to Late Woodland?

Geographical Range

The Mobile Bay area and presumably southern Alabama.

Most likely does not extend into southwestern Georgia, use the name Deptford Linear Check Stamped in Georgia instead

References

Wimberly 1953.

Wimberly 1960:177.