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On the eastern exterior of the third house, archaeologists unearthed a large ditch lined with sherds, which was filled with stones and plastered over.

The sparse pottery recovered (124 diagnostic sherds) indicates a primary occupation during the fifteenth and early fourteenth centuries BCE, followed much later by scanty Byzantine use--seemingly as a storage facility--in the tenth-eleventh centuries CE.

Pottery is found in great quantities at Vindolanda during each excavation season - usually into the tens of thousands of sherds per year.

In the summary paper, in which all the available chronological data for 2012 were listed, there are four datings made on crust samples from Ka III ceramic sherds (Mokkonen 2008; Seitsonen et al.

My wife and I visit the UK fairly regularly, and not only does Cardiff feature in those visits, but we always climb the hill to St Mary's Church and the hill fort at Caerau, where I spent much time looking for sherds of pottery in the molehills in the Iron Age fort.

It is also an ancient settlement and an important trading post during the precolonial times as evidenced by gold ornaments and ceramic sherds unearthed by famed archeologist H.

My novel Sherds, which some consider as my very best, details the poignant relationship between PG Golangco, a rich and accomplished potter, and his poor and beautiful protege, Guia Espiritu.

Sherds and fragmentary plaques from post-Mauryan sites across South Asia have been found in such huge quantities that they have been regarded almost as the nemesis of an excavation, and in the most fastidious of excavations have been diligently labelled, numbered and stored away to seldom be published or studied again.

In the plain type sherds with incised circles, leaf pattern, curved lines six-pointed star incised in double lines are prominent', the report states.

The surface finds from Dillu Roy included a wide range of pottery, painted stamps, incised and sherds with applique' decoration.