Objects of the Past in the Past

How did past communities view, understand and communicate their pasts? And how can we, as archaeologists, understand this? This volume brings together a range of case studies in which objects of the past were encountered and reappropriated.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Knight, Matthew G.
Otros Autores: Boughton, Dot, Wilkinson, Rachel E.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Summertown : Archaeopress, 2019.
Temas:
Antiquities > Interpretive programs > History.
Archaeology > Great Britain.
Historiography > Great Britain.
Archéologie > Grande-Bretagne.
Historiographie > Grande-Bretagne.
Antiquities > Interpretive programs
Archaeology
Historiography
Great Britain
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover
  • Copyright Information
  • Contents
  • Contributors
  • Chapter 1
  • Objects of the Past in the Past
  • Figure 1.1: The Hammer of St Martin (image courtesy of Museum Catharijneconvent, Utrecht / Ruben de Heer)
  • Figure 1.2: Two Late Bronze Age amber beads used as charms against blindness by the Macdonalds of Glencoe, Scotland, in the 19th century (NMS Acc. Nos H.NO 4-5). © National Museums Scotland.
  • Figure 1.3: A prehistoric flint arrowhead mounted in a gold pendant to be worn as an amulet (NMS Acc. No. H.NO 75). © National Museums Scotland.
  • Chapter 2
  • Doubtful associations? Assessing Bronze Age 'multi-period' hoards from northern England, Scotland and Wales
  • Matthew G. Knight
  • Figure 2.1: Frequency of different out-of-time object types found in Late Bronze Age multi-period hoards from northern England, Scotland and Wales.
  • Figure 2.2: A map of Britain and Ireland showing the distribution of the case studies described in this paper (numbers correlate with Table 1 and the appendix). Case studies are plotted according to the likelihood of truly representing an out-of-time depo
  • Figure 2.3: The Callander hoard. Illustration: Alan Braby © National Museums Scotland
  • Figure 2.4: The Kincardine hoard. Photo: M. Knight, courtesy of the Highland Folk Museum
  • Figure 2.5: The Corsbie Moss spearhead and sword. Photo: M. Knight © National Museums Scotland
  • Figure 2.6: A selection of worn and fragmentary blades from Duddingston Loch. The Middle Bronze Age rapier is illustrated bottom right. Illustration: Marion O'Neil © National Museums Scotland
  • Figure 2.7: The expected typological durations of the objects in the Kincardine and Callander hoards (following information in Burgess and Gerloff 1981
  • Davis 2012
  • Schmidt and Burgess 1981)
  • Chapter 3
  • Connecting with the past: Earliest Iron Age multi-period hoards in Wessex
  • Dot Boughton
  • Figure 3.1: Melksham Hoard (Wiltshire). Image used with kind permission of Devizes Museum.
  • Figure 3.2: Stockbury Hoard (Kent). Treasure Number 2011T110. Image courtesy of the Portable Antiquities Scheme, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
  • Figure 3.3: Distribution of Earliest Iron Age socketed axeheads in South England, South West England and South Wales. Key: 1 = Hindon, Wiltshire (WILT-9439A7)
  • 2 = Hindon II, Wiltshire (WILT-A74356)
  • 3 = Tisbury, Wiltshire (WILT-0594F7)
  • 4 = Vale of War
  • Figure 3.4: Examples of Portland-type axes from the Portland Hoard (Dorset). Image used with kind permission of The Salisbury Museum (Pitt Rivers Collection).

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