Sitting tenatnt

Definition

sherd = SHARD

Examples

1. ‘A few sherds of Anglo-Saxon pottery are associated with this final phase.’
2. ‘There were sherds of pottery all over the place.’
3. ‘Within the border zone on the nearer side of the frontier
4. the haul of finds during an excavation might consist of two or three sherds of Roman pottery
5. a glass bead or fragment of a glass bangle
6. some iron fragments
7. and quernstones.’
8. ‘In addition to the nondiagnostic pipe fragment
9. Feature 22 contained sherds from two Mackinac Punctate vessels and one sherd with drag-jab decoration
10. commonly associated with the Juntunen phase.’
11. ‘Colin saw human bone and Beaker sherds and called Wessex Archaeology: a team was on site that afternoon.’
12. ‘After excavation a sherd can be heated again and its stored energy released and measured.’
13. ‘The presence of Woodland rim and body sherds and Great Oasis pottery
14. including entire vessels
15. already has been noted.’
16. ‘Residue analysis on pottery sherds also suggests a high reliance on corn.’
17. ‘Over 900 mould fragments
18. 250 crucible sherds
19. as well as waste products
20. scrap metalwork
21. tools and raw materials were recovered.’
22. ‘A 1.5 by 1 m pit containing heavily baked clay and burnt sherds may be a kiln
23. the first of its kind for mainland Britain.’
24. ‘But when we began to excavate the midden material outside the buildings we came across sherds of Unstan ware pottery.’
25. ‘Finds included stone axes
26. arrow heads
27. one javelin head
28. flint tools such as blades and scrapers
29. and thousands of sherds of decorated pottery
30. many of them larger than a man's hand
31. with at least six complete smashed pots.’
32. ‘In the midst of the Anglo-Saxon burials were two crouched Bronze Age burials
33. both adults
34. associated with sherds of Beaker pottery and a small bronze awl probably dating from about 2000 BC.’
35. ‘The only indication of age was the mention of ‘numerous small sherds of late prehistoric pottery’.’
36. ‘Ancient walls and pottery sherds are concentrated on the surface of Azoria at an elevation of approximately 320-370 m above sea level.’
37. ‘But over that winter we produced something like 600 sherds of pottery
38. a collection of late Bronze Age metalwork
39. spindlewhorls
40. loom weights
41. and animal bone.’
42. ‘The courtyard had become extremely muddy with use
43. and trapped in the mud were numerous sherds of pottery and other small finds.’
44. ‘During the Iron Age
45. people continued to visit Grimes Graves and several excavations have produced pottery sherds
46. although
47. again
48. no settlements have yet been found.’
49. ‘Excavations at Cade 9 produced 679 pottery sherds including rims associated with two weakly collared
50. cord-impressed vessels.’
51. ‘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).’