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potsherd

NOUN
  1. a shard of pottery

How To Use potsherd In A Sentence

  • Burnt lamp grease and potsherds were discovered close to the entrance passage.
  • The majority of the finds were of fired clay in the form of whole vessels, potsherds, figurines, and pipes.
  • It was a ruin in the making, and my friends and I were camped out amid its potsherds and tumuli.
  • You can't go anywhere really without stumbling over potsherds, coins, bones etc. in some parts of the country.
  • At Agadagbabou, an abandoned site, about sixty-seven percent of the potsherds recovered were undecorated.
  • Small postholes containing iron nails, early medieval potsherds and a silver coin of Ethelred II dating to 1010 suggested that the terraces had been revetted by posts.
  • Other vessels and potsherds are decorated with animal figures that suggest a usage other than the merely pragmatic.
  • Small postholes containing iron nails, early medieval potsherds and a silver coin of Ethelred II dating to 1010 suggested that the terraces had been revetted by posts.
  • It was a ruin in the making, and my friends and I were camped out amid its potsherds and tumuli.
  • In Mesopotamia, where the reading of omens was developed into an art, the symptoms of the disease were understood as omens too, just as a potsherd found by the exorciser on his way to the sick man could be of ominous portent. HEALTH AND DISEASE
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