Accession No
Z 37287.1-20
Description
Twenty coarse brushed (and perhaps scored) sherds. Mostly body sherds, although with at least one rim present. Sandy temper.
Place
Americas; Caribbean; West Indies; Trinidad and Tobago; Tobago; Lovers’ Retreat
Period
Pre-Columbian/Pre-Hispanic Saladoid
Source
Bushnell, Geoffrey Hext Sutherland [excavator and donor]
Department
Arch
Reference Numbers
Z 37287.1-20
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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: Sophie Wardle
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)
External storage box reads: '25 WEST INDIES - Tobago. Lovers Retreat (site 16) pit ii 0-6"'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note by Mary Hill Harris with sherds reads: 'Scored coarse / Brushed-smoothed. 6 External. 6 Internal. 8 Both.'
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. Lovers Retreat, Plymouth - pit ii, 0-6". Plymouth scored or brushed sherds'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl
Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 37287[.1-40] in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: '40 body sherds, "possibly scored" according to GHSB [Geoffrey Hext Sutherland Bushnell]. 20 coarse brushed [.1-20], 15 medium brushed [.21-35], 3 med. with no brushing visible [.36-38]. 1 coarse with no brushing visible [.39], 1 ?stone [.40].'
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle
Context (Field collection)
Lovers’ Retreat, site 16, pit ii, 0-6”. 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: Sophie Wardle
Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 37287[.1-40]: '40 ?brushed or ?scored body sherds.'
Event Date 15/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl
Description (Physical description)
Twenty coarse brushed (and perhaps scored) sherds. Mostly body sherds, although with at least one rim present. Sandy temper.
Event Date 28/5/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle
FM:271598
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