Ancient Greek History and Roman History. A deep drinking cup or bowl; = skyphos, n.

‘Thunderstone’: applied by some early mineralogists to a meteorite or to meteoric iron; by others to belemnites, and to flint arrow-heads of…

A deep drinking cup or bowl, typically unostentatious in design, having a small base and two handles not extending above the level of the rim. Cf. sc…

the hole in an axe-head or similar implement for the insertion of the haft or handle.

A potsherd (or occasionally: a piece of limestone) used in the ancient world as a writing surface, esp. for votive or hieratic purposes or (in Greek…

A large knife used by the Franks in hunting and in war; identified by antiquaries with a particular type of weapon found in Teutonic burial-mounds.

A fragment of broken earthenware. spec. in Archaeology, a piece of broken pottery. Phrase: to break,etc. into sherds: to reduce to fragments, break…

An oval or egg-shaped object; (esp. in Archaeology) an oval implement; spec. a type of oval hand-axe with a continuous cutting edge, of the Lower…

Archaeology. A raised prominence in the base of a cup, dish, etc.

a ridge on a celt, pipe, etc. which prevents one part from slipping too far over another.

A ritual artefact (usually made of a single piece of jade) consisting of rectangular block with a central cylindrical hollow, found esp. in…

a type of microlith.

Archaeology. More fully spacer plate. A flat bead perforated with several holes in the same plane, by which the threads of a multi-strand necklace…

With plural agreement. Bronze bell-shaped objects typically decorated with geometric designs or stylized scenes from life, and believed to have been…

Chinese Archaeology. A flat ring or perforated disc made of jade, widely circulated from the Shang period to the Hang dynasty.

Archaeology. An artefact abandoned at a preparatory stage of manufacture but having the intended final shape apparent. Cf. to rough out 1 at rough…

A rostro-carinate object.

= ushabti, n. Cf. shabti, n.

Archaeology. A scraper of a type discovered amongst the Mousterian remains of the Middle Palaeolithic period. Cf. side scraper n. at side, n.1…

= last, n.1 2; also figurative; also used attributively in Archaeology to designate or with reference to polished stone implements, flat on one…

technical. A tube, or hollow shaft, fitting over or enclosing a rod, spindle, etc., and designed to protect or strengthen it, or to connect one…

A primitive light plough, which scratched the surface of the land rather than turning furrows.

an early form of biface.