Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card description: 'In addition [to A] a group of [in a different hand '6'] marked 57.120 x from squares BC (i) 18-26", which are well finished + delicate enough to suggest that they belong to the Palo Seco style of Trinidad.'
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Author: Josie Howl

Context (Display)
Typewritten note reads: 'Palo Seco style. (Trinidad)'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl

Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. MT. IRVINE COOMBE. 6 (i) 18-26". Rims + adornos. 57.120 x (6) Palo Seco'.
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Author: Josie Howl

Context (Related Documents)
Original catalogue card reads: 'In addition to [1957.120 B] a group of 6 sherds marked "57.120 x" from squares B.C. 6(i) 18-26".'
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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)
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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 (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6 from squares B.C. 6(i) 18-26". 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)
Six red ware sherds of Palo Seco style. One upright rim of a rounded vessel; one everted rim; two decorated with two horizontal scored lines; two decorated with scored lines, including ovoid shapes with an incised line inside. Five rims are painted red on interior.
Event Date 23/5/2024
Author: Clare McKenna