Context (Related Documents)
Accession register notes: 'Stone + sherds from Mt. Irvine, surface', but the cardboard box in which the objects are stored reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. MT IRVINE COOMBE. (site 6) Surface. Shell + 2 sherds', and on sight at least two of the objects resemble shell from elsewhere in Bushnell's Tobago collection.
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Author: Josie Howl

Description (Labels & Markings)
Both marked in pen '.6.'
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Author: Clare McKenna

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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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)
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Author: Clare McKenna

Context (Related Documents)
See archives relating to Bushnell's 1955 Tobago excavations (FR4/1/1 - FR4/1/7).
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Author: Josie Howl

Context (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6, surface. 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: Clare McKenna

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 Z 32987 [A-B.1-4]: '2 rim sherds and 4 pieces of stone or possibly ?shell.'
Event Date 12/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl

Description (Physical description)
Two rim sherds. One is of red ware with curved walls; a squared, inturned rim painted red; with incised lines on the rim and just below on the interior. The other has an inturned, rounded rim; short walls and a slightly concave base; polished and painted red on the exterior.
Event Date 21/5/2024
Author: Clare McKenna