- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- A grey pottery sherd. Cord marks on the upper half of the sherd and there are double dots motif between broad grooved lines on the lower half of the sherd. [Fumiko Ohinata, Japanese Archaeology Project 1996-2000]
- Geographical reference
- Hokkaidō [北海道] Oshima Subprefecture [Oshima-shichō, 渡島支庁] Hakodate [Hakodate-shi, 函館市]
- Cultural groups
- Japanese
- Date / Period
- Archaeological period: Jōmon 縄文時代
- Date collected
- By 1892
- Acquisition information
- Purchased: 05/1892
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Process Handbuilt, Process Incised, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Decorated
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 7 mm, Length: max 44 mm, Width: max 35 mm, Weight 9.8 g
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1892.56.102 Other numbers: JAC 399
- Research and responses
Listed and described as JAC399 on page 119 of the unpublished draft typescript 'The Japanese Archaeology Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford', by Fumiko Ohinata and Jeremy Coote (dated 2002): ‘Pottery ... Jomon pottery ... Japanese Jomon pottery is renowned for its antiquity as it is more than 12,000 years old ... Pottery from this period has a great variety of shapes and decoration, including the characteristic cord-marking (jomon), which has given its name to the whole period. It should be noted, however, that not all pottery of the Jomon period has cord mark decorations. The jomon pottery provides the terminology after which the period is named and not the criteria by which it is assigned ... JAC 399; Plate 56.2 / Hokkaido, ?Hakodate / 4.4×3.5×0.7 cm; 9.8 g / A grey sherd. Cord marks on the upper half of the sherd and there are double dots motif between broad grooved lines on the lower half of the sherd. / PRM 1892.56.102.' Also illustrated in Plate 56.2. (Copy of typescript in RDF: Researchers: Ohinata and Coote). [MN 04/01/2010]
1892.56.102
A grey pottery sherd. Cord marks on the upper half of the sherd and there are double dots motif between broad grooved lines on the lower half of the sherd. [Fumiko Ohinata, Japanese Archaeology Project 1996-2000]
1892.56.102
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