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Oxford J Archaeol 17 (1)
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Oxford J Archaeol 17 (1)
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Oxford Journal of Archaeology
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17 (1)
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Journal
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John Boardman
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Blackwell Publishing
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1998
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BIAB (The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/ojoa/17/1
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24 Aug 2005
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The mineralogy of the Bronze Age copper ores from the British Isles: implications for the composition of early metalwor...
Robert A Ixer
Paul D Budd
15 - 41
Analytical studies have contributed to the compilation of a large compositional database of Early to Middle Bronze Age copper-based artefacts revealing distinctive impurity patterns which appear to change over time. However, attempts to relate these data to copper ore sources proved problematic in the absence of firm evidence for the location of prehistoric copper mines. This situation has changed with the discovery of numerous Early and Middle Bronze Age copper mines in England and Wales. This study is an attempt at a comprehensive mineralogical survey of the principal mines investigated up to 1998, in order to define the likely composition of the copper ores as mined in antiquity for comparison with the artefact database. The study suggests that the majority of these mines can only have produced essentially pure copper. Only one mine, Ross Island, is likely to have produced copper with a significant level of impurities. The relative purity of the known ore sources is contrasted with significant levels of various metallic impurities among the analysed artefacts, leading to the conclusion that metal circulation and mixing may have been more extensive than previously thought even during the earliest part of the Bronze Age. Includes
Glossary of some mining and geological terms used in the text
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Books of life: biography and memory in a Bronze Age barrow
J Last
43 - 53
An important round barrow with a primary Beaker interment and numerous secondary burials was excavated at Barnack, Cambridgeshire, in 1974--76. Reading the published report gives the impression that many of the secondary interments, by their location and attitude, reveal a memory of the primary rite. It is argued that the sequence of burials at Barnack reflects the genealogical history of the group which used the site, and that a series of events emerges, structured primarily by the concept of `difference', which both retain the unique identities of the buried individuals and form a constructed narrative of society. Similar sequences are evident at other Bronze Age barrows in the east Midlands and elsewhere. The author argues that such sites seem to represent our closest approach to the `embodied experiences' of prehistoric actors.
Late Iron Age ballast-quarries at Hengistbury Head, Dorset
John Taylor
113 - 119
During excavations at Hengistbury Head between 1979 and 1984 certain Late Iron Age features, described as `quarry hollows' and `scoops', were discovered along the shoreline. They are the result of gravel extraction, which, it is argued, was carried out in order to supply ballast for ships plying their trade across the English Channel during the first half of the first century BC. Accordingly, these features represent the first on-shore archaeological evidence for the provision of ballast in antiquity.
Cartoons, crocodiles and Celtic art: images from a scholar's notebooks
Vincent V S Megaw
M Megaw
121 - 126
Article on the life and work of the Celtic art specialist Paul Ferdinand Jacobsthal (1880--1957), focusing on his unpublished writing and on his use of imagery.