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  • noun Plural form of sherd.

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Examples

  • Where rainwater had run, charcoal, stamped pot sherds, and bits of burned bone could be seen.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • Where rainwater had run, charcoal, stamped pot sherds, and bits of burned bone could be seen.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • The usual bits of pot sherds, stone flakes, and cooking stones winked underfoot as they caught the slanting light.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • The usual bits of pot sherds, stone flakes, and cooking stones winked underfoot as they caught the slanting light.

    Fire The Sky W. Michael Gear 2011

  • The stone-reinforced earth rampart on top of the Anglian Tower contained a few sherds of eighth- to ninth-century pottery Ottaway 2004, p.142.

    Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010

  • The stone-reinforced earth rampart on top of the Anglian Tower contained a few sherds of eighth- to ninth-century pottery Ottaway 2004, p.142.

    Archive 2010-09-01 Carla 2010

  • The stone-reinforced earth rampart on top of the Anglian Tower contained a few sherds of eighth- to ninth-century pottery Ottaway 2004, p.142.

    Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010

  • In her estimation, the ceramic sherds likely belonged to "open-mouthed globular pots" embedded with incised triangles, and "cross-hatching, diagonal lines, and rows of round punctuates."

    Societies, Religion, and History: Central East Tanzanians and the World They Created, c. 200 BCE to 1800 CE 2008

  • The stone-reinforced earth rampart on top of the Anglian Tower contained a few sherds of eighth- to ninth-century pottery Ottaway 2004, p.142.

    Kings of Lindsey Carla 2010

  • The stone-reinforced earth rampart on top of the Anglian Tower contained a few sherds of eighth- to ninth-century pottery Ottaway 2004, p.142.

    The Anglian Tower, York Carla 2010

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