Context (Related Documents)
Catalogue card for Z 44493 in Mary Hill Harris’ hand notes that 'plain sherds were discarded from this pit (Z 44493 - Z 44500).'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: 'Rim. a) from lugged or wavy-edged vessel with grooved pattern ext[erior].'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Related Documents)
See archives relating to Bushnell's 1955 Tobago excavations (FR4/1/1 - FR4/1/7).
In his excavation report, [FR4/1/4] page 3, Bushnell writes of the Mt. Irvine Road site: 'It is clear that the original sites had been eroded and the material washed down the hill.'
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl

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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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: Josie Howl

Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. MT. IRVINE ROAD. pit ii, 0-12" and 12-24". Sherds, shell, stone'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl

Context (Related Documents)
See catalogue card for sketch of grooved decoration.
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Road, site 4, pit ii, 0-12”. 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: Josie Howl

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: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Rim sherd.
Event Date 7/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl

Description (Physical description)
Rim sherd from a lugged or wavy-edged vessel of coarse, orange to grey coloured fabric with quartz sand temper. Exterior has a shallow ridge and groove at the rim, and grooved decoration below in a pattern of horizontal lines separated by vertical lines.
Event Date 28/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad