The result of forty years of study, this book offers an overview of the most common find, after coins, on sites in Roman Britain, the brooch. Used basically to hold outer clothing together, it was always on view and was usually decorative. Based on the study of some 15,000 specimens, the second volu
Brooches in late Iron Age and Roman Britain. 1
โ Scribed by Mackreth, D. F
- Publisher
- Oxbow Books
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 471
- Category
- Library
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
โฆ Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Introduction Part 1. The Study Part 2. Dating Part 3. Typologies and Classification Part 4. Selection and Bias Part 5. Materials and Manufacture Part 6. The Illustrations Chapter 2. Late La Tene, Britain and the Continent Part 1. The Stead, Birdlip, Nauheim and Drahtfibel Group, etc. Part 2. The Rosette and Langton Down Group Part 3. The Colchester Part 4. The Aesica Part 5. The South Western La Tene Series Part 6. The Military La Tene II Chapter 3. The Colchester Derivative Part 1. The Harlow, Spring System Part 2. The Rearhook Part 3. The Polden Hill Part 4. The Hinged Pin Part 5. Polden Hill/Hinged Pin Chapter 4. The Headstud and others Part 1. Alternative Headstuds Part 2. The Headstud Part 3. The Wroxeter Part 4. Colchester Derivatives, with Trumpet-style Knops Chapter 5. The Trumpet and its Varieties Part 1. Mainstream Trumpets Part 2. Double-lugged Part 3. The Knop Replaced by Flat Plates Part 4. Hinged Chapter 6. Continent Imports and Their Influence Part 1. Alesia-Aucissa Series Part 2. The Hod Hill Part 3. The Durotrigan Part 4. The Augenfibel and Relatives Part 5. The Pannonian, Norican etc Chapter 7. The Plate and Related, and Dragonesques Introduction Part 1. British Part 2. Continental Part 3. Objects and Animals Part 4. Dragonesque Chapter 8. The Knee, Almgren 101 and Interlopers Part 1. The Knee Part 2. Almgren 101 Part 3. Interlopers from Free Germany etc Chapter 9. The Crossbow Sequence Part 1. The Sprung-pin or Proto Crossbow Brooches Part 2. The Crossbow and its Antecedents Chapter 10. Penannulars Part 1. Coiled Part 2. Folded Over Part 3. Knobbed Part 4. Late-zooemorphic Part 5. Others Chapter 11. Usage, Tribes, Fashions and the Demise of the Bow Brooch Part 1. Who Wore Brooches, Why and How Part 2. The Problem of Military Brooches Part 3. Religion Part 4. Marketing and Money Appendices 1. The Dating of the King Harry Lane Cemetery 2. The Dating of Applied White Metal Trim 3. South Cadbury the South West Gate
โฆ Subjects
Antiquities;Brooches;Brooches--History--To 1500;Classical antiquities;Excavations (Archaeology);Iron age;Material culture;Material culture--History--To 1500;History;Brooches -- History -- To 1500;Material culture -- History -- To 1500;England, Southern -- Antiquities;England, Southern -- Antiquities, Roman;Southern England
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