Accession No

Z 37365


Description

148 sherds of varying fabric and thickness, including two simple rim sherds, 145 plain body sherds, and one flat base sherd. Some with red paint.


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 37365


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. MT. IRVINE COOMBE. 6 (i) BC.1 26-32". Plain body sherds 148 redware'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: '148 plain body sherds - not individually marked.'
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Context (Related Documents)
Accession register notes: 'Tobago, MT. IRVINE COOMBE, 6 (i) B.C.1.26-32" '
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl


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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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: Jan-Henrik Hartung


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(i) B.C1, 26"-32" from 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: Jan-Henrik Hartung


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: Jan-Henrik Hartung


Description (Physical description)
148 plain body sherds.
Event Date 14/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl


Description (Physical description)
148 sherds of varying fabric and thickness, including two simple rim sherds, 145 plain body sherds, and one flat base sherd. Some with red paint.
Event Date 24/5/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


FM:271376

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