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Oxford J Archaeol 26 (4)
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Title:
Oxford J Archaeol 26 (4)
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Series:
Oxford Journal of Archaeology
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Volume:
26 (4)
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Publication Type:
Journal
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Editor:
Barry Cunliffe
Helena Hamerow
Nicholas Purcell
Chris Gosden
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Publisher:
Blackwell Publishing
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Year of Publication:
2007
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ojoa/26/4
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Created Date:
05 Dec 2007
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Making metal and forging relations: ironworking in the British Iron Age
Melanie Giles
395 - 413
The article explores the social significance of metalworking in the British Iron Age, drawing ethnographic analogies with small-scale, pre-industrial communities. It focuses on iron, from the collection of ore to smelting and smithing, challenging the assumption that specialized ironworking was necessarily associated with hierarchical chiefdoms, supported by full-time craft specialists. Instead, it explores more complex ways in which social and political authority might have been associated with craftwork, through metaphorical associations with fertility, skill and exchange. Challenging traditional interpretations of objects such as tools and weapons, it argues that the importance of this craft lay in its dual association with transformative power, both creative and destructive. It suggests that this technology literally made new kinds of metaphorical relationships thinkable, and it explores the implications through a series of case studies ranging from the production and use of iron objects to their destruction and deposition.
Procession and symbolism at Tara: analysis of Tech Midchúarta (the `Banqueting Hall'...
Conor Newman
415 - 438
New analysis explores Tech Midchúarta (the `Banqueting Hall') from the point of view of a sacral, processional approach to the summit of the Hill of Tara, the pre-eminent cult and inauguration site of prehistoric and early medieval Ireland. It is suggested that aspects of its architectural form symbolize the liminal boundary between the human world and the Otherworld of Tara, and that in so far as Tech Midchúarta is also designed to control and manipulate how the ceremonial complex is disclosed to the observer, it assembles the existing monuments into one, integrated ceremonial campus. It is argued that Tech Midchúarta is one of the later monuments on the Hill of Tara and that it may date from the early medieval period. Using the evidence of documentary sources and extant monuments, a possible processional route from Tech Midchúarta to Ráith na Ríg is described.