Accession No
1957.145 A
Description
Sherd with red and black paint.
Place
Americas; Caribbean; West Indies; 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
1957.145 A
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Display)
Catalogue card for 1957.145 A-D written prior to 1986 states that these sherds were displayed in a drawer marked 'wares indicating outside contact' and as 'Massacre style St Lucia AD 700-1000'.
Event Date
Author: Stephanie Chinneck
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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: Stephanie Chinneck
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)
Handwritten notes loose in cardboard box read: 'This called Saladoid' and: 'This called transitional or post Saladoid. Both looked at + drawn'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. MT. IRVINE COOMBE. 6 (i) A.1. 18-22" and 18'26" '
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6 (i) A.1. 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: Stephanie Chinneck
Description (Physical description)
Sherd with red and black paint.
Event Date 11/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Related Documents)
Typed note found with sherd reads 'Massacre Style, St Lucia, about AD 700-1000
Event Date 31/5/2024
Author: Stephanie Chinneck
FM:270585
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