Accession No
Z 43816 C
Description
Coarse red ware rim sherd. Simple, curved rim, wall decorated with a horizontal scored line.
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 43816 C
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
50mm
Events
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 43816 A-C in Mary Hill Harris' hand: '3 decorated sherds of very coarse ware... C: grooved, possibly a pot stand.'
Event Date
Author: Clare McKenna
Context (Related Documents)
See archives relating to Bushnell's 1955 Tobago excavations (FR4/1/1 - FR4/1/7).
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. MT. IRVINE, Site 6, surface. 8 sherds very coarse ware - ?Plymouth red'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Related Documents)
Accession register notes: 'Tobago, MT. IRVINE COOMBE, SURFACE + DISTURBED'.
Event Date
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)
Coarse decorated sherd, possibly ?Plymouth Red style.
Event Date 12/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl
Description (Physical description)
Coarse red ware rim sherd. Simple, curved rim, wall decorated with a horizontal scored line.
Event Date 21/5/2024
Author: Clare McKenna
FM:270679
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