ceramic shards
Pieces of earthenware
Ceramic shards are broken pieces of pottery or other fired clay objects.
The term appears most often in archaeology, where shards (also spelled sherds) provide evidence of past human activity: The dig uncovered ceramic shards dating to the Bronze Age.
Outside archaeology, ceramic shards are simply fragments of broken ceramics—a smashed vase, a cracked tile.
- potteryFired clay objects
- pottery fragmentsPieces of broken ceramics
- terracottaFired reddish-brown ceramic
- stonewareDense ceramic fired hot
- kintsugiMending ceramics with gold
excavation · artifact · provenance · time capsule · museum collection · archaeological dig · mosaic · porcelain · earthenware · midden · refitting · stratigraphy · glaze · typology · seriation · weathering · temper · cracked
- ceramicspottery, porcelain, cup, bowl, plate
- found materialsfound objects, driftwood, sea glass, bottle caps, shells
- antiquitiesancient coins, ancient relics, ancient artifacts, ancient pottery, ancient seals
- archaeologyexcavation, dig site, archaeologist, dig, archaeological digs
- ancient potteryamphora, amphorae, earthenware, Greek pottery, Greek vase
- potterypot, pottery, clay pottery, throwing, terracotta