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Location: None recorded, moved to site museum prior to August 1984.
Associations: None recorded.
Condition: Base broken away below annulus.
Photographs: Present report, Plate 42.
Drawings: None.
Carved Areas: Sculpture in the round.
Material: This monument was found subsequent to Williams' work. However, there is nothing about it to suggest that its material is any different than that of Monument 1.
Dimensions: Height 30 cm, Diameter of cap 25 cm.
Description: Miscellaneous 1 is a Type C mushroom stone with a broken base and a three-member annulus.
Remarks: The three-member annulus on this example closely resembles the three-member medial molding on Puuc style columnets. Mushroom stones with such an annulus are most commonly found in Tabasco (Mayer 1977:28). A Type C mushroom stone with annulus was recovered from a Middle Preclassic grave at Mango Seco, Chiapas (Lee 1962). Weiant states that "fragments of three stone `pounders' with flaring base and cylindrical handle were excavated at the Ranchito site (pl. 69, fig. 5)" (Weiant 1943:120). The fragments he illustrates in Plate 69-5 and in Plate 70-16 look very much like fragments of mushroom stones similar to the complete example listed in the present catalogue as Miscellaneous 2.
