Fragments of the Bronze Age : the destruction and deposition of metalwork in south-west Britain and its wider context /

The destruction and deposition of metalwork is a widely recognised phenomenon across Bronze Age Europe. Weapons were decommissioned and thrown into rivers; axes were fragmented and piled in hoards; and ornaments were crushed, contorted and placed in certain landscapes. Interpretation of this materia...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Knight, Matthew G. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oxford ; Philadelphia : London : Oxbow Books ; The Prehistoric Society, 2022.
Series:Prehistoric Society research paper ; no. 13.
Subjects:
Metal-work, Prehistoric > England > West Country.
Bronze age > England > West Country.
Métallurgie préhistorique > Angleterre (Sud-Ouest)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology
Antiquities.
Bronze age.
Metal-work, Prehistoric.
West Country (England) > Antiquities.
England > West Country.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Piece offerings:approaches to the destruction and deposition of Bronze Age metalwork
  • 2 Making sense of the pieces
  • 3 Burnt, broken and buried: the Chalcolithic-Early Bronze Age, c. 2450-1500 BC
  • 4 Selective destruction:the Middle Bronze Age, c. 1500-1150 BC
  • 5 Mass destruction and minor destruction: the Late Bronze Age-earliest Iron Age, c. 1150-600 BC
  • 6 Destruction and deposition of metalwork in south-west Britainin its wider context
  • 7 Final fragments
  • what do the pieces tell us?

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