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Noun(1) a broken piece of a brittle artifact

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(1) After excavation a sherd can be heated again and its stored energy released and measured.(2) There were sherds of pottery all over the place.(3) Excavations at Cade 9 produced 679 pottery sherds including rims associated with two weakly collared, cord-impressed vessels.(4) But when we began to excavate the midden material outside the buildings we came across sherds of Unstan ware pottery.(5) In the midst of the Anglo-Saxon burials were two crouched Bronze Age burials, both adults, associated with sherds of Beaker pottery and a small bronze awl probably dating from about 2000 BC.(6) A few sherds of Anglo-Saxon pottery are associated with this final phase.(7) Finds included stone axes, arrow heads, one javelin head, flint tools such as blades and scrapers, and thousands of sherds of decorated pottery, many of them larger than a man's hand, with at least six complete smashed pots.(8) During the Iron Age, people continued to visit Grimes Graves and several excavations have produced pottery sherds , although, again, no settlements have yet been found.(9) The courtyard had become extremely muddy with use, and trapped in the mud were numerous sherds of pottery and other small finds.(10) A 1.5 by 1 m pit containing heavily baked clay and burnt sherds may be a kiln, the first of its kind for mainland Britain.(11) The only indication of age was the mention of ‘numerous small sherds of late prehistoric pottery’.(12) Ancient walls and pottery sherds are concentrated on the surface of Azoria at an elevation of approximately 320-370 m above sea level.(13) But over that winter we produced something like 600 sherds of pottery, a collection of late Bronze Age metalwork, spindlewhorls, loom weights, and animal bone.(14) In addition to the nondiagnostic pipe fragment, Feature 22 contained sherds from two Mackinac Punctate vessels and one sherd with drag-jab decoration, commonly associated with the Juntunen phase.(15) Residue analysis on pottery sherds also suggests a high reliance on corn.(16) Colin saw human bone and Beaker sherds and called Wessex Archaeology: a team was on site that afternoon.