- Collection type
- Object
- Description
- Pottery sherd from the body of a thick grey ware vessel. Lighter grey on the inside. [EH [OPS move] 29/11/2017]
- Geographical reference
- São Vicente (Saint Vincent) Bay of João d'Evora
- Date / Period
- Date made: 1400-1600
- Date collected
- 1913
- Acquisition information
- Donated: 1913
- Materials and processes
- Material Pottery, Process Fire-Hardened, Process Handbuilt
- Dimensions
- Depth: max 11 mm, Length: max 74 mm, Width: max 64 mm
- Object numbers
- Accession number: 1913.34.18.35
- Research and responses
On page 89 of his autobiography, Said and Done: The Autobiography of an Archaeologist (London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson, 1955), O. G. S. Crawford writes: 'One day I walked across the island to a bay on the north side where I found a remarkable assortment of drift on the beach, including some molucca beans that had come from the West Indies. There was also a kitchen midden with potsherds in the sand-dunes; but if the island was uninhabited as stated when it was discovered in the fifteenth century it cannot have been very old. (I gave the sherds to Balfour for the Pitt-Rivers Museum).' [JN 1998; JC 15 7 2008]
For an account of the results of the first phase of an archaeological excavation undertaken at the same site in 1998, see ‘Contribuição para o estudo de estações arqueohistõricas em cabo verde: Os concheiros de Salamanza e João d'Evora Ilha de S. Vicente’, by M. Conceição Rodrigues, in Portugalia, Vol. 21/22 (2000–2001), pp. 249–80. (Photocopy in RDF.) [JC 27 8 2009]
Note that the place is João d'Evora, with a "v" (not Erora, as Crawford had spelled it). [AS 08/03/2011]
This object was looked at by Chris Evans (University of Cambridge). The visit took place 22/09/15. [NC 23/09/2015]
- Associated publications
- Reference: Finding the Forgotten: Locating Transatlantic Slavery in The Pitt Rivers Museum Collection, Main author: Jane Webster, 2025, Page: 109
- ‘Contribuição para o estudo de estações arqueohistõricas em cabo verde: Os concheiros de Salamanza e João d'Evora Ilha de S. Vicente’, by M. Conceição Rodrigues, in Portugalia, Vol. 21/22 (2000–2001), pp. 249–80
1913.34.18.35
Pottery sherd from the body of a thick grey ware vessel. Lighter grey on the inside. [EH [OPS move] 29/11/2017]
1913.34.18.35
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