Context (Related Documents)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. Lovers Retreat, Plymouth - pit ii, 0-6". Plymouth Scored ware - strap handles'.
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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: Sophie Wardle

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 (in Mary Hill Harris' hand) inside bag with Z 37291 J and K reads: 'These 2 have more black particles'.
Event Date
Author: Josie Howl

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 37291 A-K in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: '11 Plymouth scored strap handles (GHSB [Geoffrey Hext Sutherland Bushnell] classification).'
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 (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)
Scored strap handle.
Event Date 15/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl

Description (Physical description)
Sherd; fragment of a strap handle. Scored decoration on both faces. Sandy temper, including black particles.
Event Date 29/5/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle