Sentence examples for sherd from inspiring English sources

She is keen on ammonites and shows a couple of little fossils, and a glazed sherd adorned with two dancing fish that "can't be later than 12th century".

Garner got out of his car and took no more than a few steps before he saw an earth-colored pottery sherd.

Holding a sherd at the Luna settlement.

Lloyd knew Garner was sherd-savvy: he could easily distinguish Native American pottery from Spanish, French, or British Colonial, all of which pepper the ground in and around Pensacola.

Bodies of writing from this period are fragmented: a few signs scratched on sherds or cut in stone.

They found several more water jar sherds there, and also at 15 feet and 5 feet upslope toward the ceremonial building.

Archaeologists have found walls, gates, stone roads, pottery sherds and some brickwork, according to Xinhua.

In places below the visitor's feet are strata 75 feet deep, which contain the shattered bric-a-brac of human history: Islamic glass, Hellenistic bowls, Parthanian clay coffins, greenish black-patterned Ubaid sherds and the little clay sickles used by the first dwellers in the Mesopotamian plain around 5000BC.

There are ordinary, coarse sherds that would have come from everyday cooking pots and bowls.

It is quite wrong, and pitifully old fashioned, to see it in any way as a glamorous quest for lost treasure - only tell that to the young digger who, in the last year, found a hoard of 43 pristine gold Roman coins, after days sifting through pot sherds and scraps of animal bone in a muddy London ditch.

The sherds, taken from the levels relating to the periods before and after the Black Death, suggest a population collapse of around 45%.