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The West Balt Circle Riders
Spurs and their Role in the Bogaczewo and Sudovian Cultures
The spurs of horse riders have long been acknowledged as an important item of grave furniture in the Late Roman and Migration period burials of Poland a reflection of the high social position held by the deceased. Yet while spurs have been studied at a general level and typo-chronological studies have been conducted on spurs found in southern and central Poland no such research has so far been conducted on finds from the West Balt Circle in north-eastern Poland. This volume is an attempt to rectify the situation by offering a thorough examination of finds attributed to the Bogaczewo and Sudovian Cultures. The author here offers a comprehensive assessment of surviving materials from the period many of which are scattered through museums across Europe together with an in-depth analysis of archival sources (included among them the private inventories of archaeologists working in the pre-war period) in order to reconstruct our understanding of the furnishings and data relating to spurs. This detailed research carefully contextualized against our wider understanding of Barbarian Europe offers an important new reference for our understanding both of the West Balt Circle and its inter-cultural relations with surrounding regions as well as of the symbolic meaning of spurs and their significance in burial rites.
Hoards from the European Bronze and Iron Ages
Current Research and New Perspectives
Hoards are among the most enigmatic of archaeological finds. The term ‘hoard’ itself has been applied to different assemblages across space and time from the Stone Age into the modern era with an inventory that typically includes artefacts made of valuable raw materials to which significant symbolic meanings can also be assigned. Archaeologists have been trying to understand this phenomenon for much of the last century sometimes emphasizing the universal nature of hoards but more typically focusing on specific regions chronologies and finds. They have for the most part used results derived from typolo-chronological methods. Contemporary archaeology has however developed a broad spectrum of paradigms and methods and hoardresearch in the twenty-first century draws on an increasingly wide range of approaches.This volume presents examples of research that make use of these multi-faceted approaches through a focus on European hoards of metal objects dating to the Bronze and Iron Ages. The contributors to this volume make use of diverse methods among them archaeometallurgical analyses studies of use- and production-wear destruction patterns and landscape archaeology but together their common denominator is the search for a methodological toolkit that will allow researchers to better understand the phenomenon of hoard-deposition more broadly.
Metal Finds and Coins
Final Publications from the Danish-German Jerash Northwest Quarter Project II
The Decapolis city of Jerash has long attracted attention from both travellers and scholars due both to the longevity of the site and the remarkable finds uncovered during successive phases of excavation that have taken place from 1902 onwards. Between 2011 and 2016 a Danish-German team led by the universities of Aarhus and Münster focused their attention on the Northwest Quarter of Jerash - the highest point within the walled city - and this volume is the second in a series of books presenting the team’s final results.
This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the coins and metal remains found in Jerash during the excavations. The contributions gathered here cover the small metal finds from the Northwest Quarter as well as examining Greek Roman Byzantine and Islamic coins.