1892.56.111

Collection type

Object

Description

Grey pottery sherd with cord marks covering the surface. Extremely worn. Fits with fragment 1892.56.110. [JC 31 8 2000; Fumiko Ohinata, Japanese Archaeology Project 1996-2000]

Long description

Four refitted pieces. Grey sherd with cord marks covering the surface. Extremely worn. There is evidence of old exhibition mount marks (which probably appeared before the object was donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum). Fits with fragment 1892.56.110. [JC 31 8 2000; Fumiko Ohinata, Japanese Archaeology Project 1996-2000]

Geographical reference

Japan

Asia > Eastern Asia > Japan

Hokkaidō [北海道] Oshima Subprefecture [Oshima-shichō, 渡島支庁] Hakodate [Hakodate-shi, 函館市]

Cultural groups

Japanese

Person

Field collector Basil Hall Chamberlain

PRM source Basil Hall Chamberlain

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 Impressed, Process Fire-Hardened

Dimensions

Width: max 31 mm, Length: max 37 mm, Depth: max 5 mm, Weight 7.5 g

Object numbers

Accession number: 1892.56.111 Other numbers: JAC 406

Research and responses

Listed and described as JAC406 on page 120 of the unpublished draft typescript 'The Japanese Archaeology Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford', by Fumiko Ohinata and Jeremy Coote (dated 2002):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 406; Plate 56.9 / Hokkaido, ?Hakodate / 7.1×5.5×0.8 cm; Total 28.4 g / Four refitted pieces. Grey sherd with cord marks covering the surface. Extremely worn. There is evidence of old exhibition mount marks (which probably appeared before the object was donated to the Pitt Rivers Museum). / PRM 1892.56.110 (8.9 g), 1892.56.111 (7.5 g) 1892.56.114 (6.7 g) & 1892.56.115(5.3 g).' Also illustrated in Plate 56.9. (Copy of typescript in RDF: Researchers: Ohinata and Coote). [MN 04/01/2010]

Search terms: Pottery, Vessel, Sherd