Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain 1842174118, 9781842174111, 1842176420, 9781842176429

The result of forty years of study, this book offers an overview of the most common find, after coins, on sites in Roman

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Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain
 1842174118,  9781842174111,  1842176420,  9781842176429

Table of contents :
Volume 1

Prologue
Acknowledgements
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 Tène, 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 Tène Series
Part 6. The Military La Tène 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. Alésia-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-zoömorphic
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

Bibliography

Volume 2

Contents

Figures
Figure 1 A Map of England showing the abbreviations used for counties in the database
Figure 2 The stamps used on the Type 3 gilded oval/round brooches

The Plates
1-150

Supplementary Plate 1
Supplementary Plate 2

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