[Louis A. Brennan et al. (1962)] VINETTE I POTTERY* IN THE CROTON RIVER MOUTH AREA Louis A. Brennan Metropolitan & Mid-Hudson Chapters Two weeks ago, (March, 1962), while excavating in the middens at the Kettle Rock end of Croton Point about which we reported to this Association last year, the author, in the company of Mauck Brammer and Sigfus Olafson, came upon the first occurrence of descriptively Vinette I pottery in stratigraphic midden position in our twelve years of excavation in this area. This pottery, interior and exterior cord marked, the cord marking of the interior and exterior at diagonals to each other, occurred-in the top and last-deposited oyster shell heap in a complex of shell heaps of at least two different climatic epochs. The shells of this Vinette I-like pottery midden are small by comparison with those of the middens beneath it. This context confirms our finding of Vinette I-like pottery in association, in two other places, with heaps of small oyster shell. In the two previous instances the Vinette I-like pottery was discovered beyond the periphery of middens, rather than within the shell. Thus the association was probable without being actual. The only other pottery found in two years (we are now entering our third year) of excavating at Kettle Rock Point, the northernmost, upriver tip of Croton Point, has also been found with small shell. Some sherds of this are interiorly channeled, which relates them to Vinette II ware.