Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES', and in pencil (possibly a different hand): 'Tobago'. Beneath that, in a different hand again: 'Mt Irvine, site 6. pit iii, top "6 (selected). 11 sherds'.
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Author: Josie Howl

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note in Bushnell's hand found with Z 43820 - Z 43823 reads: '4 sherds sent to Rouse.'
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Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Related Documents)
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: 'Hollow base. Medium thick ware.'
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Author: Lizzy Peneycad

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 (Related Documents)
Handwritten note found with Z 43820 - Z 43823 reads: 'Mt. Irvine Site 6, pit iii, top 6" (selected). 3 coarse sherds off same vessel ?pot stand. 1 hollow base. 1 tubuluar foot or lug spout. 1 red-painted sherd. 1 grooved sherd. 4 other sherds. [final three in list] from finer thinner vessels ~Plymouth Red.'
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Author: Lizzy Peneycad

Context (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6(iii), top 6”. 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: Lizzy Peneycad

Description (Physical description)
Hollow base sherd.
Event Date 12/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl

Description (Physical description)
Hollow base sherd of thick, medium, buff to reddish brown coloured fabric with quartz sand temper. Concave, obtuse-angled base.
Event Date 21/5/2024
Author: Lizzy Peneycad