Accession No
1957.143 D
Description
Buff sherd with quartz temper. Scored neck, body bulges and is decorated with zoned incised cross-hatching bounded by a wider curved line.
Place
Americas; Caribbean; Trinidad and Tobago; Tobago; Mount Irvine Coombe
Period
Pre-Columbian/Pre-Hispanic Saladoid ?Cedros
Source
Bushnell, Geoffrey Hext Sutherland [excavator and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
1957.143 D
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
44mm
Events
Context (References)
Bushnell, G.H.S. (n.d.). Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago. MAA Archive (FR4/1/4 text, FR4/1/2 plates)
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna
Context (Related Documents)
See archives relating to Bushnell's 1955 Tobago excavations (FR4/1/1 - FR4/1/7).
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Description (Physical description)
Sherd with cross-hatched incision, and dark minerals as well as quartz as temper.
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6(i), superficial disturbed level. Excavated by Geoffrey Bushnell during his 1955 expedition to Tobago, funded by the Crowther-Beynon Fund and Louis C.G. Clarke.
Event Date 1955
Author: maa
Context (References)
Harris, M.H.G. (1988). ‘The Ceramics of Tobago and Barbados: A Report on Studies In Progress.’ In Saunders, N.J. and de Montmollin, O. (eds.), Recent Studies in Pre-Columbian Archaeology. BAR International Series 421. Oxford: British Archaeological Report. pp. 245-273
Event Date 1988
Author: Clare McKenna
Description (Physical description)
Buff sherd with quartz temper. Scored neck, body bulges and is decorated with zoned incised cross-hatching bounded by a wider curved line.
Event Date 20/5/2024
Author: Clare McKenna
FM:265045
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