Unbaked Urns of Rudely Shape
Essays on British and Irish Pottery for Ian Longworth
Oxbow Books (Publisher)
Published on 1. December 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
218 pages
978-0-946897-94-0 (ISBN)
Description
Essays on British and Irish pottery presented to Ian Longworth on his retirement as Keeper of the Department of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities in the British Museum. The book focuses on Neolithic and Bronze Age pots including Beakers, Deverel-Rimsbury pottery and collared urns.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
with illus
Dimensions
Height: 300 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-946897-94-0 (9780946897940)
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Content
Irish Neolithic pottery - the story in 1955, A. Sheridan; first impressions - a review of Peterborough Ware in Wales, A. Gibson; grooved ware from Scotland - aspects of decoration, A. MacSween; an innovation backed by great prestige - the instance of the spiral and 20 centuries of stony sleep, I. Kinnes; Beakers - loosening a stereotype, H. Case; find pots, pure pots, beaker pots, R. Boast; skeuomorphism - some reflections of leather, wood and basketry in EBA pottery, T.G. Manby; Southwestern BA pottery, M. Parker Pearson; cognition, ethnicity and some implications for linguistics in the perception and perpetration of "collared urn art", D. Tomalin; the cordoned urn tradition, J. Waddell; Ardleigh reconsidered - Deverel-Rimbury pottery in Essex, N. Brown; Bronze Age settlements and domestic pottery in northern Britain - some suggestions, C. Burgess; a bowl from Maidscross, Suffolk - burials with pottery in the post Deverel-Rimburry period, S. Needham; pots, pits and peat - ceramics and settlements in East Anglia, F. Healy; pottery fabrics in Wessex in the fourth to second millennia, R.M.J. Cleal; vessel size and social identity in the Bronze Age of southern Britain, A.Woodward; prehistoric red-finished pottery from Kent, A. Middleton; educational souvenirs - models of British Bronze Age pottery in Goss heraldic porcelain, C. Johns.