Accession No

Z 37348


Description

37 body sherds, including one strap handle, from multiple vessels. Fabric red or brown in colour with areas of blackening, grey cores, quartz temper with shelly inclusions.


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 37348


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


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: ‘37 body sherds, including one strap handle ... Not individually marked’.
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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)
37 body sherds.
Event Date 11/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl


Context (Found together / assemblage)
From catalogue card for Z 37348 in Mary Hill's hand, these sherds were found with Z 37344 and Z 37345 'but not in the 'body - fine' bag so by implication GHSB called these 'coarse'.'
Event Date 29/5/2024
Author: Stephanie Chinneck


Description (Physical description)
37 body sherds, including one strap handle, from multiple vessels. Fabric red or brown in colour with areas of blackening, grey cores, quartz temper with shelly inclusions.
Event Date 29/5/2024
Author: Stephanie Chinneck


FM:270658

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