sherd

Converse of object

• abrade: During the cleaning of these pieces, 3 small, abraded sherds of pottery were found to have adhered to the slag.
• glaze: Roman sherds and glass fragments; fired bricks on higher parts; one glazed Islamic sherd seen.
• decorate: Matthew holding up a decorated pot sherd, his first artifact find on the wreck.
• contain: The Roman road completely sealed a small ditch which contained sherds of coarse, black pottery possibly of Iron Age date.

Adjective modifier

• coarse: There were very few cooking ware or coarse ware sherds discovered that could be dated to the Hellenistic Age.
• residual: Here too, the residual sherds could have been disturbed from an Anglian feature of similar date to that excavated on the site.
• ware: Without them, an early 8th century date would be likely, to account for the low frequency of Ipswich ware sherds.
• Roman: A large proportion of the finds were Roman pottery sherds.
• single: York D ware A single sherd of York D ware was present in a Period 4 deposit.
• medieval: Further more the hole produced a collection of early medieval pottery sherds.

Noun used with modifier

• amphora: What is lacking in both the Hellenistic and Early Roman periods is amphora sherds, both domestic and imported.
• PH: The PH sherds are found mainly N of the modern road, especially from disturbed earth W of Ag.
• pottery: A problem is the few number of pottery sherds found during the Greek dark ages.
• rim: The majority were body sherds, although a few rim sherds were also present.
• pot: The pot sherds form the corner of a square vessel, which makes this a uncommon find.

Preposition: in

• fabric: Many of the sherds in this fabric are heavily burned.

Preposition: of

• pottery: The fill of the latter produced three sherds of pottery, two Roman, the third in a Late Iron Age fabric.
• ware: Many urban sites are being excavated where sherds of these wares are commonly found.
• vessel: Beside well-preserved pottery, there are sherds of broken vessels or vessels with missing bodies which were left as grave goods.

Preposition: from

• vessel: The Roman material is moderately abraded but includes several groups of sherds from the same vessel ( sherd families ).