Accession No
Z 43903 B
Description
Flat sherd of rim lugs or anthropozoomorphic adorno. Two small rounded, moulded lugs, each with short grooved horizontal line below. Outer edges of lugs extend downward to curved grooved line. Reddish buff burnished surface, dark grey core, sandy 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 43903 B
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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: Danlei Zhou
Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 43903 A-I on catalogue card in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: 'Rim lugs + two or 3 body lugs. All except (i) have grooved decoration.'
Event Date
Author: Danlei Zhou
Context (Related Documents)
See archives relating to Bushnell's 1955 Tobago excavations (FR4/1/1 - FR4/1/7).
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6(ii) A-C1, 15-21". 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: Danlei Zhou
Description (Physical description)
Lug.
Event Date 13/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl
Description (Physical description)
Flat sherd of rim lugs or anthropozoomorphic adorno. Two small rounded, moulded lugs, each with short grooved horizontal line below. Outer edges of lugs extend downward to curved grooved line. Reddish buff burnished surface, dark grey core, sandy temper.
Event Date 22/5/2024
Author: Danlei Zhou
FM:271192
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