Accession No
Z 37386
Description
Stone pounder, roughly triangular in cross section, with ground surface.
Place
Americas; Caribbean; Trinidad and Tobago; Tobago; Mount Irvine Coombe
Period
Pre-Columbian/Pre-Hispanic Saladoid
Source
Bushnell, Geoffrey Hext Sutherland [excavator and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
Z 37386
Cultural Affliation
Material
Stone
Local Term
Measurements
87mm
Events
Description (Physical description)
Stone ?pounder, roughly triangular in cross section.
Event Date
Author: maa
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: 'Stone ?pounder, roughly triangular in cross section, 8.3 cm long.'
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Context (Related Documents)
See archives relating to Bushnell's 1955 Tobago excavations (FR4/1/1 - FR4/1/7).
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Related Documents)
Site 6 (i), B.C.1 26-32"In box with Z 37380-Z 37388 was GHSB note saying, "Strap handles, flattened bases, griddles. Not fine, Scored, Bone."
Event Date
Author: maa
Context (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6(i) B.C.1, 26"-32" from surface. 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: Jan-Henrik Hartung
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: Jan-Henrik Hartung
Description (Physical description)
Stone pounder, roughly triangular in cross section, with ground surface.
Event Date 24/5/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung
FM:265929
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