EXCAVATIONS AT MAGENS BAY


pottery different from that found by us. That he dug in the highest
part of the midden suggests his sample reflects the latest pottery
period of the site.
 Next at Magens Bay was Gudmund Hatt of Denmark who at
first worked with de Josselin de Jong of Holland. Hatt (1924) made
an archaeological survey of the Virgin Islands from December 1922
until September 1923 and excavated at Magens Bay as well as at
other sites. His work is especially noteworthy as he was the first
to make stratigraphic excavations. The catalog of his collections
at the Danish National Museum in Copenhagen includes square
and level designations for five Virgin Island sites. Unfortunately,
Hatt recently died without having written site reports on this work.
Through the courtesy of Dr. Kaj Birket-Smith I was able to see
this catalog in 1960 and to make notes on the specimens on exhibit
while I was in Copenhagen studying Hatt's Krum Bay collection.
I will make brief reference, to this catalog when pertinent.
 Hatt presented his general conclusions at the Americanist meet-
ing at The Hague in 1924. His work adds Botany Incised Casuelas
and Botany Adoi ned subtypes 1 and 2 to the pottery listed for de
Booy's work at MIagens Bay. He also mentioned carved bone and
carved shell ornaments and many stone three-pointers. He found
seven skeletons, some with clay vessels nearby.
 Hatt sees more changes with time at Magens Bay than did de
Booy. He (1924: 32-33) mentions vessels and sherds "of a fine,
thin ware, oftener found at the bottom than at the top of the
Magens Bay .. deposits" and "it is in the upper and younger parts
of these deposits that is most clearly to be seen the use of
 pottery heads." In regard to these adornos Hatt (1924: 33)
writes "The less developed forms, with the eyes indicated as simple
round or oblong pits, were found not only near the surface but
also at a greater depth. More complicated forms, where the eyes are
generally shaped like rings, were found only quite near the surface."
In respect to vessel shape, he mentions a sharp angle at the vessel
side as being early.
 These statements of Hatt's are, presumably, based on a pre-
liminary analysis of his data. The Danish National Museum cata-
log indicates that he recorded four or more levels for eight of his
tests at the Magens Bay site. I would assume Hatt's fine thin ware