A unique technique of ceramic manufacture was practiced by the inhabitants of the Goheen site in Marshall County, Kentucky, ML 14. This unusual procedure was found in a salt-pan vessel from a midden pit, Feature 22. Apparently after the salt-pan vessel was made it was found that certain portions of the vessel walls did not come up to the thickness of the rest of the vessel. An additional coat of clay was added to the outside of the vessel, in the weak spots, thus reenforcing the vessel walls. The original exterior displayed textile impressions; the part that was reenforced was absolutely plain. It is the plain part that is important, for the potter who placed this secondary coat of clay on the exterior of the vessel was doing the archaeologist an unintentional favour–he was making a direct positive of the textile used to cover the mold from which the vessel was formed.