Funerary and related cups of the British Bronze Age

Funerary and related cups of the British Bronze Age /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Copper, Claire (Author), Gibson, Alex (Author), Hallam, Deborah (Author)
Corporate Author: JSTOR (Organization)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Archaeopress Archaeology, 2022.
Subjects:
Pottery, Prehistoric > Great Britain.
Drinking cups > Great Britain > History.
Bronze age > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Antiquities.
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Potted History of Cups
  • Cups and antiquarians
  • Abercromby and after
  • Building up a Corpus
  • More recent work
  • Summary
  • ch. 2 Cup Forms, Fabrics, Surface Treatments and Motifs
  • Creating a more simplified typology
  • Group 1 Miniature forms of other vessels (Figure 2.2 & 2.3)
  • Group 2 Biconical vessels (Figures 2.4 & 2.5)
  • Group 3 Simple forms (Figures 2.6 & 2.7)
  • Group 4 Exotic forms (Figures 2.8 & 2.9)
  • Lids
  • Bases (figure 2.1l)
  • Surface treatments and decoration
  • Burnishing and slips
  • Impressed and incised techniques
  • Plastic features and decoration
  • Motifs
  • Base Decoration (Figure 2.12)
  • Inlays
  • Perforations
  • Summary
  • ch. 3 Observations on the Technology and Use of Bronze Age Ceramic Cups
  • Introduction
  • Fabrics
  • Local clays
  • Non-local clays
  • Types and range of inclusions
  • Forming techniques
  • Firing
  • Firing damage
  • Use
  • Summary
  • ch. 4 Archaeological Contexts of Cups
  • Introduction
  • Early Neolithic barrows and cairns
  • Round barrows, cairns and ring-ditches
  • Flat graves
  • Cists
  • Circles of stone, timber and pits
  • Middens/domestic contexts
  • Unusual contexts
  • Summary
  • ch. 5 Cups and Human Remains
  • Introduction
  • Cremated remains
  • Inhumations
  • Cups without human remains
  • Summary
  • ch. 6 Associations and Chronology
  • Other ceramics (appendix 2)
  • Other associations
  • Copper alloy metalwork (appendix 3; table 6.1)
  • Goldwork
  • Beads and Baubles
  • Bone (Table 6.2)
  • Other Associations
  • Absolute chronology
  • Modelling cup dates
  • Summary
  • ch. 7 Cups: An Overview
  • Typology
  • Origins
  • Function
  • Technology
  • Decoration
  • Context and associations
  • Corpus
  • Museum Abbreviations Used in the Corpus
  • Bedfordshire
  • Berkshire
  • Buckinghamshire
  • Cambridgeshire
  • Cheshire
  • Cornwall
  • Devon
  • Dorset
  • Essex
  • Gloucestershire
  • Greater London
  • Hampshire
  • Hertfordshire
  • Isle Of Wight
  • Jersey
  • Kent
  • Leicestershire
  • Lincolnshire
  • Norfolk
  • Northamptonshire
  • Nottinghamshire
  • Oxfordshire
  • Somerset
  • Staffordshire
  • Suffolk
  • Sussex
  • Warwickshire
  • Wiltshire
  • Worcestershire
  • Unprovenanced
  • County Durham
  • Cumbria
  • Derbyshire
  • Greater Manchester
  • Lancashire
  • Northumberland
  • East Yorkshire
  • North Yorkshire
  • South Yorkshire
  • West Yorkshire
  • Unprovenanced Cups
  • Clwyd
  • Dyfed
  • Glamorgan
  • Gwynedd
  • Powys
  • Aberdeenshire
  • Angus
  • Argyll & Bute
  • Ayrshire South
  • Dumfries & Galloway
  • Dunbartonshire East
  • East Lothian
  • Edinburgh
  • Fife
  • Highland
  • Lanarkshire North
  • Lanarkshire South
  • Midlothian
  • Moray
  • Orkney
  • Perth & Kinross
  • Scottish Borders
  • Unprovenanced Scotland.

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