Iron age mirrors: a biographical approach
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2010
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| adam_text | CONTENTS
Preface and Acknowledgements
iv
List of figures
vi
List of tables
ix
Chapter
1:
Introduction
1
1.1
Iron Age mirrors
1
Mirror form
1
Metal composition
1
Location of finds
1
Find context
2
1.2
Literature review
3
Summary of existing work
3
Dating
4
Origins
5
Decoration
6
Summary
6
1.3
Research aims
7
Chapter
2:
The biographical approach
8
2.1
Object biography
8
2.2
Archaeology and the biographical approach
8
Use-life analysis
8
Summary
9
2.3
Problems with existing archaeological applications of the biographical approach
9
Biography doesn t have to be chronological
9
Object vs. human lives
9
Concepts of time
10
Summary
10
2.4
Anthropology and biography
11
2.5
Biography as an understanding of social relationships
11
2.6
A biography of mirrors
12
Events in the life of a mirror
12
2.7
Biographical mirrors
13
Chapter
3:
Making mirrors
14
3.1
Introduction
14
3.2
Approaches to metalworking
14
3.3
Making bronze mirrors
15
Mining and smelting bronze
15
Casting the handle
16
Making and decorating a plate
16
Assembling a mirror
17
Summary
18
3.4
Iron mirrors
18
Location of ores
19
Smelting iron ore
19
Location of smelting sites
19
The Foulness Valley
20
Iron smithing
20
Making an iron mirror
21
Summary
21
3.5
Mirrors made of a combination of bronze and iron components
21
Summary
22
3.6
Conclusion
22
Chapter
4:
Re-examining mirror decoration
24
4.1
Introduction
24
4.2
Re-assessment of the existing categorisation of mirror decoration
24
4.3
Analytical processes
24
Terminology
25
4.4
Mirror-style motif repertoire
25
Positive motifs
25
Negative motifs
26
4.5
Design rules
27
Design construction
27
Examples of roundel construction
34
4.6
Unused space
34
4.7
Complexity
35
4.8
Vertical symmetry
36
4.9
Summary
36
4.10
Why decorate? The effect of decoration
38
Who understood the design rules?
38
The sensory environment
38
Visual qualities and context
39
The visual experience
39
Summary
40
4.11
Why mirrors were decorated
40
Chapter
5:
Analysis of use/wear/repair
41
5.1
Introduction
41
5.2
Results
42
Wear to the terminal ring
42
Stress marks between plate and handle
43
Decoration underlying handle or rim
43
Polishing on the handle
43
Evidence of repair
43
Missing edging
43
5.3
Interpretation
43
5.4
Conclusions
44
Chapter
6:
Mirror form
45
6.1
Mirror component parts reference material culture
46
Mirror handles
46
Mirror plate
46
Mirror motifs identified on other artefacts
47
Bronze-binding
48
Techniques of manufacture
48
Summary
48
6.2
Mirrors in Use: techniques of the body
48
Gazing at reflection
49
The mirror as third eye
49
Mirrors used to evoke light
50
6.3
Conclusion
50
Chapter
7:
The mirror as social and cultural nexus
51
7.1
Making mirrors
51
7.2
Mirror decoration
51
7.3
Analysis of use/wear/repair
51
7.4
Mirror form
51
7.5
Mirrors as social and cultural nexus
52
Chapter
8:
Dating audit
53
8.1
Introduction to dating mirror deposition
53
8.2
Why is establishing a chronology for mirrors important?
53
8.3
The chronology of iron mirrors
54
8.4
Mirror decoration
-
regional and temporal trends
55
South-eastern mirrors
55
Western mirrors
55
Sub-regional groupings
55
Temporal trends
56
8.5
Interpretation of mirror chronology
56
8.6
Conclusion
57
Chapter
9:
Depositional context
58
9.1
Introduction
58
9.2
Burial contexts
58
East Yorkshire
58
South-western cist burials containing mirrors
63
Cremation burials from southeast England containing mirrors
64
Western mirrors
69
Mirrors from graves outside Britain
70
9.3
Mirrors from other contexts
71
Mirrors found in settlement contexts
71
Mirrors found in watery contexts
72
Mirrors with little or no context
72
9.4
Conclusions
72
Chapter
10:
Biographical mirrors
74
10.1
Introduction
74
10.2
Mirrors as socially powerful objects
74
Mirrors associated with mature adults
74
Summary
74
Gendering mirrors: archaeological evidence
75
Summary
76
Who owned mirrors
76
Mirrors as an indicator of status
76
Summary
77
10.3
Patterns in the deposition data
77
Position of mirrors in the grave
77
Summary
78
Prominent locations in the landscape
78
Mirrors deposited in covering
79
10.4
The social relations objectified when mirrors were deposited
80
East Yorkshire
-
Wetwang Village
80
Southwest
—
The Bryher mirror burial
80
South-eastern
-
Aston mirror burial
81
Western
-
the Portesham mirror burial
81
Settlement context
—
Holcombe mirror
82
10.5
Conclusions
82
Chapter
11:
Conclusions
83
11.1
Introduction
83
11.2
Mirrors and the British Iron Age
83
11.3
The application of the biographical approach to archaeological data
84
11.4
Biographical mirrors
84
Appendix A: Catalogue of British-type mirrors
85
Appendix B: Chronology of Iron Age mirrors
128
Appendix C: Iron Age objects decorated with mirror motifs
136
Appendix D: Mirror handles
141
Appendix
Έ:
Trace element analysis of the metal content of mirrors
146
Appendix F: Mirrors with decorated plates
148
Appendix G: The size of mirrors
149
Appendix H: Visual examination of mirrors in museums
152
References
161
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