SURVEYED SITES


and Rouse 1958: 119-21) ceramics from Coral Bay are simpler and,
hence, possibly younger as they lack elaboration of lugs and handles.
However, presence at Coral Bay of incised griddles, of a griddle leg
or basal ring, of large amounts of coarse-sand-tempered sherds (Hull
Plain), a Hull rim point, red-painted vessel lips, experimental use
of shell-temper, and apparent scarcity of fine cross-hatched incision
suggest that our collection may represent a late phase of the Cedros-
Coral-Cuevas tradition. This question cannot be resolved until
Hatt's collections have been analyzed. Possibly the site was occu-
pied during both an early and a late "Coral" period.

 Surveyed Sites

 Our survey located a total of eighteen sites on the island of
 St. John which produced at least some evidence of Indian habita-
 tion. Of these I have discussed the four which we tested. This sec-
 tion covers the balance of fourteen surve)ed sites. They are di-
 vided into two groups, those on the west and north shores and
 those on the east and south shores. They will be covered in a clock-
 wise direction starting with Cruz Bay, our Site 19 (Fig. 2).

 West and North Shore Sites

 The site at Cruz Bay (Fig. 2, 19) is situated, at a respectable
distance from the shore, on a saddle of land which slopes down-
ward to Cruz Bay and to a brackish pond to the southwest. It is
located to the southeast of the main part of the town of Cruz Bay
where a school playground occupies most of the site.
 Small sherds were found weathering out of the surface across
the street to the west of the schoolyard. Immediately to the south-
west of the playground we found a midden deposit of black dirt and
West Indian top shells where the slope of the adjacent hillside had
been cut into for the installation of the playground fence.
 The midden, in places, attained a maximum thickness of 40
cm. It was covered by a greater amount of overburden, obviously
the result of erosion of material downward from the adjacent hill-
side. The central portion of the site had been located where the
playground is now.