Sentence examples for bits of pottery from inspiring English sources

Display windows contain bits of pottery and glass that were found during excavation work.

Ostraca the plural of ostracon were bits of pottery or limestone that were often used to jot down business matters.

Mud brick benches, covered with pillows and inlaid with bits of pottery, run along the inside of the courtyard.

He discovered that around fallen trees it was sometimes possible to find bits of pottery made by prehistoric Swedes, and he filled his room with potsherds.

"When my dad eventually came home, he shipped a whole tea chest of this kind of stuff home – seals, tablets, bits of pottery," said Douglas.

'We have surveyed the site and found broken toys and bits of pottery that show the ship had become a home by then,' said Prescott.

There were many bits and bobs of pottery, actually, including asymmetrical vases and fractured "fortune cookies" from which spilled predictions signed by Darleen Christopher, a Seattle-based clairvoyant.

But inside it has lots of bits of broken pottery.

Whitaker spots bits of ivory pottery and blue-specked china once used by Chinese cannery workers.

Thousands of small bits of tile, pottery, colored bottle glass, shells and even ceramic figurines adorn the walls, fountains, basins and mortar-encased towers -- 17 structures in all.

Professor Carenza Lewis has analysed of tens of thousands of bits of datable broken pottery, excavated from almost 2,000 test pits in eastern England.