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Earthenware, buff, sherds
Earthenware, buff, sherds
Object Number 992-9-10/94820
Display Title Earthenware, buff, sherds
Descriptions
Object Description Earthenware, buff, sherds. One has brown slip on exterior, may be fragment of "dot" type slip-decorated buff earthenware. One has red-brown slip on both interior and exterior, with lead glaze over. Possibly 18th cen?
Inventory Description Sherds
Classification
  • Body
Department Archaeological
Geography/Provenience/Site Name
North America / United States / Massachusetts / Middlesex County / Cambridge / Harvard Yard
Intrasite 1992 Waterline Project; H343; N/S trench SE of Harvard Hall
Materials Earthenware
Dimensions Overall (Measurements of largest ): 2 × 1.6 × 0.5 cm (13/16 × 5/8 × 3/16 in.)
Quantity 2
Label on object H343

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