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  • We know from palynological evidence that farmers already inhabited the valley below the city around 4200 B.C., yet the oldest surface finds in the area were an Early Bronze Age ax and a pre-Hellenistic sherd in the fortress dominating the city. Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Conclusions: Urban Development
  • One sherd has a curvilinear motif, and punctates or short trailed lines bordering longer lines are relatively rare.
  • Burnt lamp grease and potsherds were discovered close to the entrance passage.
  • It was a ruin in the making, and my friends and I were camped out amid its potsherds and tumuli.
  • 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.
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  • Other vessels and potsherds are decorated with animal figures that suggest a usage other than the merely pragmatic.
  • ARI 4 14: 55 BONNER, Sherdri, 1 yard run (COOPER, Hunkie pass complete) USATODAY.com
  • 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.
  • A few sherds of Anglo-Saxon pottery are associated with this final phase.
  • Two objects were deposited under the shoulder of the bottle: a piece of a long thin bone from some medium-sized bird, possibly a partridge, and a redware rim sherd from a small black-glazed bowl. An American Witch Bottle
  • Finds included stone axes, arrow heads, one javelin head, flint tools such as blades and scrapers, and thousands of sherds of decorated pottery, many of them larger than a man's hand, with at least six complete smashed pots.
  • A single mammiform sherd was found in the surface collection.
  • Every one taking an ostracon, that is, a sherd, a piece of earthenware, wrote upon it the citizen's he would have banished, and carried it to a certain part of the market-place surrounded with wooden rails. The Boys' and Girls' Plutarch; being parts of the "Lives" of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls
  • Over 900 mould fragments, 250 crucible sherds, as well as waste products, scrap metalwork, tools and raw materials were recovered.
  • Ancient walls and pottery sherds are concentrated on the surface of Azoria at an elevation of approximately 320-370 m above sea level.
  • The latter area yielded only few sherds, but a number of structures were observed, which are built in the same "primitive" style as those recorded at Düzen (no mortar, rough fieldstone socle, no tiles or brick). Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Survey Report 12
  • Over 900 mould fragments, 250 crucible sherds, as well as waste products, scrap metalwork, tools and raw materials were recovered.
  • At Agadagbabou, an abandoned site, about sixty-seven percent of the potsherds recovered were undecorated.
  • In addition to the nondiagnostic pipe fragment, Feature 22 contained sherds from two Mackinac Punctate vessels and one sherd with drag-jab decoration, commonly associated with the Juntunen phase.
  • It contained 27 grit-tempered body sherds, 146 chipped stone artifacts, 138 fragments of burned rock weighing 1.532 kg, and scattered fragments of calcined bone and carbonized plant remains.
  • You can't go anywhere really without stumbling over potsherds, coins, bones etc. in some parts of the country.
  • It was a ruin in the making, and my friends and I were camped out amid its potsherds and tumuli.
  • Other body sherds were apparently classified by Winters as White Hall or Havana based on the thickness of the sherds (White Hall pottery generally has thinner walls than Havana pottery).
  • Every one taking an ostracon, a sherd, that is, or piece of earthenware, wrote upon it the citizen’s name he would have banished, and carried it to a certain part of the market-place surrounded with wooden rails. The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans
  • I was walking on marine shell, rangia clam shell, walking out on a point I know, when I looked down, found a pot sherd, and then I started finding more and more, Travirca recalled. Oil spill cleanup turns up trove of Indian relics
  • COOPER, Hunkie 1-1; BONNER, Sherdrick 3-1; JACKSON, Joe 1-minus 1. USATODAY.com
  • Excavations at Cade 9 produced 679 pottery sherds including rims associated with two weakly collared, cord-impressed vessels.
  • It may be noted that another sherd bearing a fragmentary inscription which includes a digamma was found among the material examined this year.
  • I also find sherds of Victorian willow-pattern plate and fragments of land-drainage pipe which date to the 1920s. BRITAIN BC: Life In Britain and Ireland before the Romans
  • Of the thousands of sherds from several dozen features inventoried in the NYU catalog sheets, only five pairs from four features were located that met both criteria and were therefore considered suitable for dating.
  • Prehistoric pottery was abundant in the test pits, with 1,360 potsherds, including 34 rim sherds and 50 decorated body sherds, recovered.
  • During the Iron Age, people continued to visit Grimes Graves and several excavations have produced pottery sherds, although, again, no settlements have yet been found.
  • A superficial investigation round these ponds usually reveals a few prehistoric sherds.
  • Brilliant as he was indefatigable, he recreated the Zuni past from their syllables and potsherds.
  • The majority of the finds were of fired clay in the form of whole vessels, potsherds, figurines, and pipes.
  • He studies the potsherds, blackware, urnfields, fossils, salt routes and water-courses of sites where, before Gallo-Roman colonization, ‘earth and artifact’ existed in ‘perfect symbiosis.’
  • (Genesis 41: 45,50; 46: 20) (B.C. Potsherd also in Authorized Version "sherd," a broken piece of earthenware. Smith's Bible Dictionary
  • Colin saw human bone and Beaker sherds and called Wessex Archaeology: a team was on site that afternoon.
  • A 1.5 by 1 m pit containing heavily baked clay and burnt sherds may be a kiln, the first of its kind for mainland Britain.
  • I am sure that we schoolmasters have many faults; but we are really trying to do better, and, as I said before, I only wish that a man of Kipling's genius had held out to us a helping hand, instead of giving us a push back into the ugly slough of usherdom, out of which many good fellows, my friends and colleagues, have, however feebly, been struggling to emerge. The Upton Letters
  • Many sherds from different periods (the last belong to the sixth century) and a rather large amount of bones were retrieved as well, while the composition of the layer had all the characteristics of a fill (hard, clayish layers of different colors and mixed material). Interactive Dig Sagalassos 2003 - Lower Agora Report 11
  • We surface-collected 14 chipped stone artifacts and 29 prehistoric potsherds in the course of five visits to the Robinson site in 1991.
  • Every one taking an ostracon, a sherd, that is, or piece of earthenware, wrote upon it the citizen’s name he would have banished, and carried it to a certain part of the market-place surrounded with wooden rails. Aristides
  • As the dig begins to uncover potsherds, roof tiles, stonework, utensils or even window glass, a picture is beginning to be built up of what a structure may have looked like, or been used for.
  • Artifacts discovered here included potsherds, some tuyeres, a clay smoking-pipe, oval-shaped pieces of chalk, shells of a variety of saltwater shellfish, and mammalian bones.
  • They were silent for a while, watching the men who continued to search the sherd ruck. THE MARSHAL AND THE MURDERER
  • Paul Woodfield says a pre-construction geophysics survey revealed nothing, so no prior excavation was required; the sherds, with large quantities of kiln wasters, were unstratified.
  • Archaeologists are often fearful of drifting too far from the ‘scientific’ rigour of postholes and potsherds into a reliance on what some see as ‘biased’ documents.
  • In it was a handful of small sherds.
  • In the midst of the Anglo-Saxon burials were two crouched Bronze Age burials, both adults, associated with sherds of Beaker pottery and a small bronze awl probably dating from about 2000 BC.
  • But when we began to excavate the midden material outside the buildings we came across sherds of Unstan ware pottery.
  • He curated an exhibition a couple of years ago which included a letter on a potsherd in Coptic.
  • After excavation a sherd can be heated again and its stored energy released and measured.
  • And they're primarily dating, according to ceramic typology - that is, what the sherds tell them about the date.
  • There were sherds of pottery all over the place.
  • Although no diagnostic Late Archaic artifacts were recovered, the Early Woodland component of the site is reflected by the presence of ovate-stemmed points, a granitic celt, and Adena thick potsherds.
  • We started excavating the subjacent layers and discovered a large amount of stones and only a few sherds. Field Notes 2006 « Interactive Dig Crete – Zominthos Project
  • Brilliant as he was indefatigable, he recreated the Zuni past from their syllables and potsherds.
  • He had become fairly comfortable with me, but he would not have dared pick up a potsherd without Emerson's permission. LORD OF THE SILENT
  • A bone needle, some animal bones and a few sherds of pottery were found here.
  • They can erase the traces of human settlement with such vigour that, often, nothing remains of a civilisation except a few potsherds, coins and glass beads.
  • And also Sagalassos six different millefiori sherds where unearthed. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - Glass Studies Report 1
  • The presence of Woodland rim and body sherds and Great Oasis pottery, including entire vessels, already has been noted.
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  • Inside they found a black-grayish basalt mummiform sarcophagus coated with a layer of earth and potsherds affixed to the lid with plaster. Czech Egyptologists Open Shaft Tomb, Identify Royal Burial at Abusir
  • Residue analysis on pottery sherds also suggests a high reliance on corn.
  • This produced no immediate effect; he then got a small bundle of different kinds of medicinal woods, and, burning them in a potsherd nearly to ashes, used the smoke and hot vapor arising from them as an auxiliary to the other in causing diaphoresis. Missionary Travels and Researches in South Africa
  • And so even if there are affinities of language between the fragments of text on this sherd and what we find in the Hebrew Bible, that might only indicate that old sources were used a point of which most scholars have long been persuaded based on other considerations or that older texts were being imitated. Linguistics and the Dating of Texts
  • There is no definite archaeological evidence from Birdoswald between the post-Roman timber halls described above and one medieval pottery sherd from the twelfth/thirteenth century Wilmott 2001 p. Archive 2010-02-01
  • Its lower levels contained a large amount of finds, including a very large dolium (large terra-cotta container) sherd. Interactive Dig Sagalassos - N-S Colonnaded Street Report 3
  • Postholes disturbed the burial pit, but their fill did not contain sherds or bones.
  • Surrounding the stalagmite was a large number of artifacts, including sherds of high-quality Hellenistic Greek and Illyrian pottery. Phallic Cult
  • 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
  • The Mesopotamians gave to the Indus basin the name ‘Meluhha’ and there have been finds of Indus potsherds and artefacts at the royal cemetery at Ur in southern Iraq.
  • The only indication of age was the mention of ‘numerous small sherds of late prehistoric pottery’.
  • Among numerous pottery vessels and potsherds, 113 pieces bore 30 incised signs or symbols.
  • The field is still popularly associated more with tents than texts: stones, bones, and potsherds.
  • Roberts divided the lot by color, puzzled us at the time because sherds from early rubbish included fragments with hachured designs and ticked rims. The Architecture of Pueblo Bonito :
  • The field is still popularly associated more with tents than texts: stones, bones, and potsherds.
  • Awer, amen i foki jivdas buti wafodo muleno manush, kon dusherdas te lias witchaben atut sar i waveri deari manushia, te yuv kairedas lis sa's ta shikker lende sar adrom, te chivdas len avri o chone. The Gypsies
  • Within the border zone on the nearer side of the frontier, the haul of finds during an excavation might consist of two or three sherds of Roman pottery, a glass bead or fragment of a glass bangle, some iron fragments, and quernstones.
  • The courtyard had become extremely muddy with use, and trapped in the mud were numerous sherds of pottery and other small finds.
  • Every scrape of my boot uncovered green, blue, and turquoise potsherds.
  • He curated an exhibition a couple of years ago which included a letter on a potsherd in Coptic.
  • The researchers used methanol, chloroform, hexane, or water to extract residues from pot sherds.
  • Artifacts discovered here included potsherds, some tuyeres, a clay smoking-pipe, oval-shaped pieces of chalk, shells of a variety of saltwater shellfish, and mammalian bones.
  • They are not only not interested in it, but are more interested in broken potsherds.
  • But over that winter we produced something like 600 sherds of pottery, a collection of late Bronze Age metalwork, spindlewhorls, loom weights, and animal bone.

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