BROOCHES IN LATE IRON AGE AND ROMAN BRITAIN (2 VOLUMES)
Written by D.F. Mackreth
Published by Oxbow Books
in 2011
ISBN: 9781842174111
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- ARCHAEOLOGY
- IRON AGE
- ROMAN
- HISTORY
- MEDALS AND BADGES
- TOPOGRAPHY (UK)
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BROOCHES IN LATE IRON AGE AND ROMAN BRITAIN (2 VOLUMES)
Written by D.F. Mackreth.
Stock no. 1827716
1st.
2011.
Hardback.
Large format.
Nearly fine condition.
Volume 1: text for the study, Volume 2: The plates, Figures etc. This is the result of forty years of study and offers an overview of the most common find, after coins, on sites in Roman Britain, the brooch. Large format. Blue glazed pictorial boards. B/w illustrations. ISBN: 9781842174111. Boards a little scuffed, contents clean, a lovely set!
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Front cover
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 Spring System
- Part 3. The Polden Hill Spring System
- 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-Stgyle 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 Type
- Part 4. The Augenfibel and Relatives
- Part 5. The Pannonian, Norican
- Chapter 7. The Plate and Related, and Dragonesques
- 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
- 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-zoomorphic
- Part 5. Others
- Chapter 11. Usage, Tribes, Fashions and the Demise of the Bow Brooch
- Part 1. Who Wore Brooches and Why and How
- Part 2. The problem with military brooches
- Part 3. Religion
- Part 4. Marketing and Money
- Appendices
- Bibliography