Accession No

Z 43806 F


Description

Sherd incorporating a flared open rim. Made up of an orange fabric with fine sand temper and painted monochrome dark red pigment on the interior. Decoration of two fine line incisions on the exterior.


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 43806 F


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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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: Alana Edgeworth


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 43806 A-F in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: ‘Red-painted rims'
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. 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)
Rim sherd with red paint.
Event Date 14/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl


Description (Physical description)
Sherd incorporating a flared open rim. Made up of an orange fabric with fine sand temper and painted monochrome dark red pigment on the interior. Decoration of two fine line incisions on the exterior.
Event Date 29/5/2024
Author: Alana Edgeworth


FM:271477

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