Description (Labels & Markings)
Marked in pencil reading: 'Bathsheba. Bds. HWF'.
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Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Description (Physical description)
Description for Z 2686 [A-D]: 'Twenty fragments of pottery.'
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Author: maa

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note on white cardboard found with objects reading in black biro ink: 'Group 2. Grouped together in display drawer'.
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Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (Display)
Handwritten display label in zip bag reading in black ink: 'BATHSHEBA. H. W. FIELDEN [sic] COLL.'
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Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung

Context (Field collection)
The Accession Register for 1889.154 records that these were found by the donor in a kitchen midden at Bathsheba, 28 July 1889.
Event Date 28/7/1889
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Analysis)
Examined by Ronald Taylor, Director of the Barbados Museum, on 2 June 1977. 'This belongs to the early period - the so called saladoid-balanoid. Red slip on brown or creamy brown.' See archive for notes and drawing of object (FA4/2/1).
Event Date 2/6/1977
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Display)
Three displayed in Maudslay Gallery West Indies Case until 1986
Event Date 1986
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (Found together / assemblage)
These sherds were grouped (presumably by Bushnell) in the display drawer, and have been boxed in bags according to his groupings. I have slides of some of these sherds in my private collection.
Event Date 25/1/1990
Author: maa

Context (References)
Harris, M.H. and Drewett, P.L. (1999). ‘Saladoid occupation at Hillcrest, Bathsheba, Barbados’. Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Congress for Caribbean Archaeology, Guadeloupe, 1995. pp. 301-311
Event Date 1999
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Context (References)
Harris, M.H. (2019). ‘The Pre-Colonial Pottery of Barbados’. In de Waal, M.S. et al (eds.), Pre-Colonial and Post-Contact Archaeology in Barbados. Leiden: Sidestone Press. pp. 77-97
Event Date 2019
Author: Imogen Gunn (admin)

Description (Physical description)
One rim sherd of dark buff fabric with dark grey core and red paint on exterior of rim. Inturned, externally bevelled rim with geometric decoration of grooves on outside of rim.
Event Date 5/6/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung