Accession No

Z 37289 D


Description

Nine simple rim sherds of scored ware; likely from bowls. 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 37289 D


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements


Events

Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. Lovers Retreat, Plymouth - pit ii, 0-6". Plymouth scored sherds (bowls + griddles)'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl


Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note with object reads: 'Indeterminate'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle


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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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


Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 37289 A-D in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: '36 Plymouth scored ware bowl rim sherds. A, B, C, D had been sorted into different envelopes by GHSB [Geoffrey Hext Sutherland Bushnell], though as the envelopes had been broken one couldn't be sure about every individual sherd. d) were marked "indeterminate" (rim, presumably)'.
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)
9 scored bowl rim sherds.
Event Date 15/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl


Description (Physical description)
Nine simple rim sherds of scored ware; likely from bowls. Sandy temper.
Event Date 28/5/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle


FM:271608

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