Part of a collection of fragments of ceramic vessels, from Modesty, Sandsting, Shetland

Part of a collection of fragments of ceramic vessels, from Modesty, Sandsting, Shetland

Part of a collection of fragments of ceramic vessels, from Modesty, Sandsting, Shetland

Neolithic pottery (Keramik) sherds, from Sondersted, Sjaelland, Denmark

Rim sherd of pottery (Keramik), Neolithic, from Denmark

Three pottery sherds, showing leaf impressions: Japan, Musashi province, Mitsusawa shell-mound, Late Jomon

Potsherd with a bold punctated and incised pattern picked out in hematite: Japan, Mitsusawa shell-mound, Middle Jomon, middle period, Kasori E style

One of seven potsherds of decorated earthenware, Lapita style: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, c. 1590 - 900 BC

One of seven potsherds of decorated earthenware, Lapita style: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, c. 1590 BC

One of seven potsherds of decorated earthenware, Lapita style: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, c. 1590 - 900 BC

One of seven potsherds of decorated earthenware, Lapita style: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, c. 1590 - 900 BC

One of seven potsherds of decorated earthenware, Lapita style: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, c. 1590 - 900 BC

One of seven potsherds of decorated earthenware, Lapita style: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, c. 1590 - 900 BC

One of seven potsherds of decorated earthenware, Lapita style: Pacific Peoples, Fiji, c. 1590 - 900 BC

Base sherd, not E ware but continental, from excavations at Dunadd, Kilmichael Glassary, Argyll

Pottery, rim sherd and neck sherd, amphora , Broch of Gurness, Aikerness, Orkney