Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked with black ink: '16 (ii) 0-6"'.
Event Date
Author: Sophie Wardle

Description (Physical description)
Catalogue card for Z 36993 A-C in Mary Hill Harris’ hand: 'Large sherds of scored ware, glued. A) is part of the rim of a wide-mouthed olla or jar with short, flaring neck. fig. 9f? circa 15-16" diam[eter]?; b+c also of large round-bodied vessels. a) has a [drawing] design resembling rocker stamping but probably made by jabbing rather than rocking.'
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)
Cardboard box reads: 'WEST INDIES - Tobago. Lovers Retreat, Plymouth - pit ii, 0-6". Scored ware'.
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 Unpublished report on 1955 survey and excavations in Tobago.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 (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 sherd.
Event Date 15/7/2016
Author: Josie Howl

Description (Physical description)
Reconstructed body sherd of scored ware. From a large, round-bodied vessel. Sandy inclusions in fabric.
Event Date 29/5/2024
Author: Sophie Wardle