broken pottery

collocation in English

meaningsofbrokenandpottery

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broken
adjective
uk
/ˈbrəʊ.kən/us
/ˈbroʊ.kən/
damaged, no longer able ...
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pottery
noun[U]
uk
/ˈpɒt.ər.i/us
/ˈpɑː.t̬ɚ.i/
the activity or skill of making clay objects ...
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(Definition ofbrokenandpotteryfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Brokenpotteryin the structure fill tells us more than architectural history.
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What is left is nothing more nor less than spoil heaps, places on which shawds, the term used forbrokenpotteryand glass, are put as rubbish.
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The site is littered with enormous amounts ofbrokenpottery, as well as conch shells, chert tools and human bones.
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Sites also occur where pieces ofbrokenpotteryor combinations of several materials are used.
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This midden material contained various kinds of woodland animal bones, fish bones, turtle shells,brokenpottery, broken hand tools and arrowheads.
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Some courtyards were paved with quartz pebbles orbrokenpottery.
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All that remains is a pile of ashes where he once stood and the gold has turned into pieces ofbrokenpottery.
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Brokenpotterymight also be repaired with the use of animal glues, filling the cracks to hide imperfections.
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It contained thousands of fragments ofbrokenpottery.
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All coffins have now been opened, and were found to contain only mummification materials, with the jars also containing mummification supplies including salts, linens, and deliberatelybrokenpottery.
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A large quantity ofbrokenpotterywas also found and appears to range in date from prehistoric times through the medieval period to the more recent past.
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He adduces in support of this hypothesis the existence of a good deal ofbrokenpotterythere, and of a few caves in the cliffs below.
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