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sherd
A Bronze Age ring and a late Bronze Age sherd were excavated nearby.
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A small number of glyphs on a pottery-sherd from Chiapa de Corzo.
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Below the possible water shrine, about 15 feet under water, Chip, who was exploring the side wall by fanning the silt, found a jar neck sherd that dates to around A.D. 800-900.
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It is said that, on this occasion, an illiterate voter, who did not know him, came up to him, and giving him his voting sherd, desired him to write upon it the name of Aristides.
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One non-local Bell Beaker sherd, however, belonging to the upper part of a beaker with a curved neck and thin walls, was found at the bedrock base of this second phase.
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- Shard: a broken piece of a brittle artifact
- In archaeology, a sherd is commonly a historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery, although the term is occasionally used to refer to fragments of stone and glass vessels as well.
- Sherds (u201Cfragments of potteryu201D or "potsherds") is a 2007 short novel or novelette written by Filipino National Artist for Literature and multi-awarded author F. Sionil Josu00E9. According to Elmer A...
- Alternative spelling of shard
- (Sherds) The individual pieces of broken pottery vessels.
- A fragment of pottery. These come in all sizes and shapes and can tell archaeologist many things like who occupied a site, when they were there and how they were eating.
- The term used for a piece of broken pottery from an archaeological context. Also called a shard.
- Fragments of pottery are separated into diagnostic and non-diagnostic sherds. Non-diagnostic sherds (normally body sherds) are not kept unless they are part of a mendable vessel. Diagnostic sherds (analytic sherds) are normally rims and bases. ...
- (or shard). a fragment of any brittle substance, especially pottery.
