Accession No

Z 2686 C.3


Description

One rim sherd of calcareous buff fabric with grey core. Inturned, externally bevelled rim; three horizontal grooves on exterior just below rim.


Place

Americas; Caribbean; Barbados; Bathsheba


Period

Pre-Columbian/Pre-Hispanic


Source

Feilden, Henry Wemyss (Colonel) [excavator and donor]


Department

Arch


Reference Numbers

Z 2686 C.3; MAA: 1889.154 B


Cultural Affliation


Material

Ceramic; Pottery


Local Term


Measurements

89mm


Events

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


Context (Related Documents)
Handwritten note on white cardboard found with objects reading in black biro ink: 'Group 3 was grouped together in display drawer'.
Event Date
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


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


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 rim sherd of calcareous buff fabric with grey core. Inturned, externally bevelled rim; three horizontal grooves on exterior just below rim.
Event Date 5/6/2024
Author: Jan-Henrik Hartung


FM:314712

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