Accession No
Z 44206 B
Description
Sherd from a strap handle of thick, coarse, reddish buff coloured fabric with quartz sand temper. Handle has an oval cross-section and is decorated on the exterior with a deep finger indentation within an incised square.
Place
Americas; Caribbean; 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 44206 B
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: 'Strap handle. b) has fingertip indentation outlined by grooved square (1 side missing).'
Event Date
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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: Imogen Gunn (admin)
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 COOMBE. 6 (ii) A-C2, 27" - bottom (about 31". Sherds'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6(ii) A-C2, 27” - bottom (about 31"). 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: Imogen Gunn (admin)
Description (Physical description)
Strap handle.
Event Date 12/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl
Description (Physical description)
Sherd from a strap handle of thick, coarse, reddish buff coloured fabric with quartz sand temper. Handle has an oval cross-section and is decorated on the exterior with a deep finger indentation within an incised square.
Event Date 21/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad
FM:270772
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