Accession No
Z 43800
Description
One body and one upright rim sherd from different vessels. Made up of fine and coarse red fabrics with sandy temper. Decoration on the body sherd of an adorno with a raised spherical eye with punctuate, and fine-line incisions.
Place
Americas; Caribbean; West Indies; 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 43800
Cultural Affliation
Material
Ceramic; Pottery
Local Term
Measurements
Events
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: ‘Two sherds.'
Event Date
Author: Alana Edgeworth
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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: Alana Edgeworth
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, surface. Plymouth Red sherds, decorated'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Field collection)
Mount Irvine Coombe, site 6 surface & disturbed. 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: Alana Edgeworth
Description (Physical description)
2 sherds.
Event Date 14/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl
Description (Physical description)
One body and one upright rim sherd from different vessels. Made up of fine and coarse red fabrics with sandy temper. Decoration on the body sherd of an adorno with a raised spherical eye with punctuate, and fine-line incisions.
Event Date 28/5/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth
FM:271430
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