Pottery fragment, a diamond-shaped body sherd of ochre-decorated greyware. Moulded lug, with a hole drilled on either side. [EH [OPS move] 7/12/2017]

Collection type: Object
Description: Pottery fragment, a diamond-shaped body sherd of ochre-decorated greyware. Moulded lug, with a hole drilled on either side. [EH [OPS move] 7/12/2017]
Geographical reference: South Africa
Africa > Southern Africa > South Africa; 5 miles from Port Elizabeth near Walmer
Cultural groups: Khoe-San
Person: Field collector Frederick William Fitzsimons; PRM source Frederick William Fitzsimons
Date
Date collected: By 1910
Acquisition information: Donated: 1910
Materials and processes: Material Pottery, Material Ochre, Process Moulded, Process Drilled
Dimensions: Depth: max 50 mm, Height: max 130 mm, Width: max 72 mm
Object numbers: Accession number: 1910.34.7
Research and responses: Strandlooper is another name for Khoisan. During Swan Fund project, summer 2002[1910.34.10-17] were found bagged with [1910.34.6-9]. They are unlabelled sherds. [CRFW 20/9/2002]
Associated publications: Referred to on page 24 of 'Stone Age Sub-Saharan Africa', by Peter Mitchell, in World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization, edited by Dan Hicks and Alice Stevenson (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), pp. 16-34. Mitchell writes: ‘A little later in date than the objects discussed thus far, but worth noting because they derive from some of the earliest explorations of the very rich archaeological record of the southern Cape coast, ... about 200 artefacts from Frederick Williams Fitzsimons (1910.34.1-33; from sites near Port Elizabeth)’. [MJD 14/11/2014]

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