sherd in the Oxford Spanish Dictionary

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Although some thinner pink ware was found, sherds were usually red or grey, thick and well fired.
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Debris, consisting of pottery sherds, flints, and fragments of copper artifacts, were spread over an extensive area, likely by the wind.
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Three scattered hearths were found (later replaced by one), along with a litter of bones and pot sherds, (mostly from cooking-pots).
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All of the pottery fragments found so far are small or miniature sherds.
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The excavations yielded animal remains and pottery sherds; it also provided good cross sections of strata.
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The excavation covered approximately of land, finding sherds of 966 different pottery vessels.
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Some pots and sherds have thumb-nail impressions on them.
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Particularly the analysis of pottery sherds helped in finding these relationships.
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However, impressions of textiles are found on pottery sherds (because the clay was placed there before it was fired).
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This is evidenced by sherds from partially reconstructable vessels scattered throughout the fill of the shaft.
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