EXCAVATIONS AT MAGENS BAY


is that which I am calling Coral Plain. His findings agree with
ours as given in Table 1.
 At the United States National Museum in Washington there
 is a large collection (cat. nos. 429554-71) from the Magens Bay site
 dug in 1937 by Herbert W. Kreiger (1938). Included are a great
 many rims and bases, mostly of Botany Plain with a fair amount of
 Bay Plain, some Bordeaux Plain and, rare but present, Magens
 Plain. Also included are Botany rim points, Botany Lugged, Botany
 and Bay Horned, red-painted sherds and sherds from Botany Grid-
 dles. The collection contains a surprisingly large number of in-
 cised casuela fragments, some Botany and Bordeaux Painted and
 Unpainted Plates, a small amount of Botany Side Appliqued, and
 two examples of Bay Lip Punctated and of Botany Narrow Handled.
 Botany Adorned is represented by specimens of subtypes 4 and 5.
 One spout suggests a Coral Modeled vessel. Among special items
 are a few sherds of Coral Plain, two of Coral White Painted, and
 two of Coral White-on-Red. The last exhibits part of a simple
 geometrical design. There is no question about the classification of
 these Coral Series sherds. Thirty spindle whorls (made of sherds),
 fifty olive shell beads (hole in the side), three notched sinkers (two
 of stone and one made from a sherd), some Strombus gigas celts, a
 Cassis lip pick, six stone three-pointers, a large stone bead, some
 stone chips, three petaloid celts, and a fragment of a stone yoke
 complete the inventory.
 Except for sherds of the Coral Series and the fragment of a
stone yoke (U.S. National Museum, cat. no. 429566), an extremely
rare item for the Virgin Islands, the collection made by Kreiger
agrees well typologically with those made by de Booy, by Hatt, and
by us. The inclusion of sherds of the Coral Series is of consider-
able interest as they tend to substantiate my identification of Hatt's
"fine thin ware," which I have not seen, as examples of that series.
While Kreiger's collection has no supporting data it seems likely
his Coral Series specimens came from lower levels as suggested
by Hatt, by our two sherds of Coral Plain (Table 1), and by the
apparent lack of such sherds in de Booy's collection.
 About 1958 Monica Flaherty Frassetto excavated at Magens
Bay. She has not as yet reported on this work but some of the speci-
mens are on exhibit in the Virgin Islands iMuStcum in Charlotte