Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: 'Part of rolled shell ?adze'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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

Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. MT. IRVINE COOMBE. 6 (i) B.C.1. above 18". Miscellaneous sherds; shell'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl

Context (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6 (i) B.C.1 above 18". 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: Clare McKenna

Description (Physical description)
Part of a shell ?adze.
Event Date 11/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl

Description (Physical description)
Incomplete rolled shell tool or adze, probably made from queen conch (strombus gigas). Broken off at one end, the other end is diagonal, the faces are curved.
Event Date 24/5/2024
Author: Clare McKenna