Accession No
Z 37340
Description
Rim sherd, from an open bowl or dish, decorated with groove marks on both sides, well smoothed surfaces. Traces of red paint on rim, red fabric. grey core with sandy temper.
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
Z 37340
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. MT. IRVINE COOMBE. 6 (i) A.1.18-26". Sherds'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Found together / assemblage)
Catalogue card for Z 37329 in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: ‘Z.37329 - Z.37342 were together in a box obviously selected out by GHSB'
Event Date
Author: Stephanie Chinneck
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: ‘Rim sherd of open bowl/dish, grooved and red-painted on rim’.
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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 (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)
Grooved rim sherd of an open dish with red paint.
Event Date 11/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl
Description (Physical description)
Rim sherd, from an open bowl or dish, decorated with groove marks on both sides, well smoothed surfaces. Traces of red paint on rim, red fabric. grey core with sandy temper.
Event Date 24/5/2024
Author: Stephanie Chinneck
FM:270605
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