Orange Plain
Pottery Series or Cultural Affiliation: Orange Series
Chronology: 2500 BC- 1000 BC
Culture Period: Orange Period
Mode of Decoration: None
Inclusions or Temper: Fiber temper, often Spanish moss; occasional sponge spicules
Region of Greatest Occurrence: East Florida, St. Johns River.
Type Description: Griffin 1945; Sears and Griffin 1950a; Ferguson 1951
See Also (AKA): Stallings Island Series (Georgia)
![Orange Plain (Orange series), exterior surface](https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/34/2017/03/fdb88783d91d7fb2aa6cc9559dc4a5d5_f3346-500x328.jpg)
![Orange Plain (Orange series), interior surface](https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/34/2017/03/751704c27cfa3f440b91d77121ff52d7_f3347-500x328.jpg)
![Cross section of fiber-tempered sherd showing cross section of channel pores from burned out fibers](https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/34/2017/03/cbe3a4d09bfe3ce09e86cb5b2c635e65_f3274-500x343.jpg)
![Cross section of fiber-tempered sherd showing a few carbonized fibers](https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/34/2017/03/2c7fe11dfe72254ed7ba45ffc5ce8d4a_f3275-500x350.jpg)
![Thin section view of fiber-tempered sherd showing carbonized fibers in some fiber temper voids (width of image 2.5mm; PPL, 4x)](https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/34/2017/03/0e03ec61d5f1a8d041310d86c48239e5_f3276-500x331.jpg)