A new corpus of Anglo-Saxon great square-headed brooches
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A new corpus of Anglo-Saxon great square-headed brooches
(Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London, no.51)
Boydell for the Society of Antiquaries of London, 1997
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 345-353
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Square-headed brooches were among the most costly and elaborate forms of female dress jewellery for many Germanic peoples in the fifth and sixth centuries AD; Scandinavian in origin, they are spread widely over England and westernEurope. This volume presents a fully illustrated catalogue and analytical study of some 209 brooches of this class belonging to a particular series produced predominantly in the Anglian and Saxon areas of Britain. The categorising and dating of the brooches throws light on Scandinavian influence on these areas, and is also evidence for the chronology of various types of associated finds. The practical and symbolic function of the brooches, together with changes in production and in patterns of deposition, are also considered, and the catalogue as a whole makes a major contribution to an understanding of social and cultural change in a critical period of historical development.
Dr JOHN HINES is Reader in the School of History and Archaeology at the University of Wales, Cardiff.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: synopsis
- methods and procedure. Part 1 The groups. Part 2 Relative chronology - a summary. Part 3 The production of square-headed brooches. Part 4 Overseas parallels: a summary - absolute chronology (I). Part 5 Associated finds: absolute chronology (II)
- brooches
- necklaces
- belt-fittings and associated items
- wrist-clasps, bracelets and finger-rings
- vessels
- miscellaneous. Part 6 The function of square-headed brooches. Appendixes: a shield-boss stud from Barrington B, Cambs, grave 103
- analyses of the alloys of Anglo-Saxon great square-headed brooches.
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