Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 2668 A-B 'Four solid shell axes.'
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 22/9/1888
Author: maa

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)
Shell adze made from the lip of a queen conch (Strombus gigas). Truncated lens in cross section with a curved cutting edge and one finely ground face. The butt end is broken off and missing.
Event Date 4/6/2024
Author: Aedan Jones