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

Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note on white cardboard found with objects reading in black biro ink: 'Group 4 was grouped together in display drawer with Z 2680'.
Event Date
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)
Some of these sherds examined by Ronald Taylor, Director of the Barbados Museum, on 2 June 1977. See archive for notes (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 cylindrical vessel leg of red fabric which bends at an acute angle to the body, thickening considerably. Pieces broken off and missing on almost all sides.
Event Date 5/6/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung