sherd

/ ʃɜːd /

noun

1. a variant of shard

Example Sentences

Team members uncovered pottery shards or "sherds"; stone tools, including ceremonial weapons and fishing-net weights; animal and plant remains; and architecture.

From Science Daily

Burn marks and animal fat residues recovered from nearby pottery sherds confirmed that the horses were cooked and eaten, setting Patagonia apart from many cultures on the Great Plains of North America.

From Science Magazine

A pottery sherd bearing Smenkhkara’s name, found by Hawass’s team at a city called the “Dazzling Aten” near the Valley of the Kings, supports this view.

From Scientific American

“No amount of sieving, sherd counting, text criticism or ancient DNA analysis can alter that equation,” Greenberg says.

From Scientific American

On the way, I asked him to flesh out what I had read: how, as a young man, six decades before, he had come across old pottery sherds while gathering wood in the hills.

From Washington Post