Accession No

Z 37341


Description

Bevelled rim sherd, from wavy-edged dish, groove decoration on flat edge of rim and interior surface, red slip with grey core and 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 37341


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 wavy-edged dish, red slipped and grooved with decoration on rim’ and a hand-drawn illustration of decorative pattern.
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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 wavy-edged dish with red slip.
Event Date 11/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl


Description (Physical description)
Bevelled rim sherd, from wavy-edged dish, groove decoration on flat edge of rim and interior surface, red slip with grey core and sandy temper.
Event Date 24/5/2024
Author: Stephanie Chinneck


FM:270606

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