Context (Related Documents)
See archives relating to Bushnell's 1955 Tobago excavations (FR4/1/1 - FR4/1/7).
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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)
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna

Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. MT. IRVINE COOMBE (Site 6). Surface + near surface'. Handwritten note with object reads: 'Medium red'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl

Context (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6(ii) A-C2, above 12” from surface (sloping). 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)
Description for 1957.117 [A-D]: '15 sherds.'
Event Date 11/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl

Description (Physical description)
Six sherds of medium red ware. Two sherds with thickened horizontally flanged rims; sherd decorated with red paint and a scored line; body sherd decorated with spaced scored lines; sherd that is squared off on both sides and decorated with a pointed bulge or knob and incised border. Sherd with flared bevelled rim; painted red with scored decorated of lines and a spiral; terminating in a footring.
Event Date 20/5/2024
Author: Clare McKenna