Accession No
Z 37311 A
Description
Two slipped rim sherds. One simple rimmed curved sherd, one horizontally flanged rim. Grey fabric with gritty quartz sand temper.
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 37311 A
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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: Aedan Jones
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 37311 A-C written in Mary Hill Harris's hand: 'Plain rims,etc
A) 2 slipped red rims
B) 8 Grainy red ware- 2 are same ?pot rest
C) 7 'Ringing red'
D) 8 Gingery smoothed, smoothed red
E) 11 Gingery
F) 3 Coarse-grit-Tempered ware.
Event Date
Author: Aedan Jones
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: 'Tobago. MT. IRVINE, site 6. pit iim A-C2 12'12". Plain rim sherds (39). Z.37311 (not individually marked). 2 slipped red. 8 grainy red. 7 "ringing red". 8 smoothed gingery or red. 11 gingery. 3 coarse-grit-tempered'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Field collection)
'Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6 (ii) A-C2, 12-21" ( 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: Aedan Jones
Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 37311 A-F '39 plain rim sherds.'
Event Date 12/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl
Description (Physical description)
Two slipped rim sherds. One simple rimmed curved sherd, one horizontally flanged rim. Grey fabric with gritty quartz sand temper.
Event Date 21/5/2024
Author: Aedan Jones
FM:270799
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