Description (Physical description)
Accession Register description for Z2667 A-G 'Seven shell adzes, convex-concave shape.'
Event Date
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
The convex-concave shape is that of the shell itself.
Event Date
Author: maa

Context (Field collection)
Found with the 'representation of a fish' (Z 2669), 'near the sea on Maxwell Estate, Barbados. 22.9.88. H.W.F.'. See label affixed to Z 2660.
Event Date 1888
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Examined by Ronald Taylor, Director of the Barbados Museum, on 2 June 1977. He notes: 'made from the inner whorl of the Strombus gigas (pink conch). Late Arawak and Carib period found on all sites all coasts except in early Saladoid sites. When blade is broken in use implement is reground like in Z 2667.' See archive for notes (FA4/2/1).
Event Date 2/6/1977
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Harris, M.H. (2019). ‘The Pre-Colonial Pottery of Barbados’. In de Waal, M.S. et al (eds.), Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados. Leiden: Sidestone Press. p. 87
Event Date 2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Amendments / updates)
The Accession Register gives the find context as 'near the sea at Maxwell', although the database record gave the information as 'Kitchen Midden'. This was likely because all the previous idnos were from the kitchen midden site at Maxwell, and was therefore an error. Therefore this has been removed and replaced with the find information in the register, which tallies with the label attached to Z 2669.
Event Date 29/5/2024
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
Adze made from the columella of a queen conch (Strombus gigas). Curved cutting edge ground on one face with a natural bevel terminating in a broken siphonal canal.
Event Date 4/6/2024
Author: Aedan Jones