Breton Palstaves from the British Isles

Burgess, Colin

doi:10.1080/00665983.1969.11077440

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“…Turning to the evidence from southern England, the situation has recently been summarised by Burgess (1969), drawing together all the examples known to him of smaller, rectangular axes found in the area. The great majority of such finds lie in the south-east of the country.…”

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Middle Bronze Age trade between Britain and Europe: a maritime perspective

Muckelroy

1981

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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This paper is derived from chapters of a PhD dissertation by Keith Muckelroy which was partially completed at the time of his death in September 1980. Publication of sections relating to work on two Bronze Age wreck sites was thought appropriate since the maritime context of the material and Muckelroy's assessment of its significance related to Bronze Age studies in general as well as the more specific focus of Middle Bronze Age maritime archaeology which formed the core of the research. In these chapters Muckelroy discussed the individual artefact types and their continental relationship and assessed the implications of the Langdon Bay and Moor Sand cargoes in terms of Bronze Age seafaring and the seaborne transportation of goods. His detailed discussion of the bronze forms has been summarized here; and it is upon the maritime aspect that this paper concentrates, this being the area in which Muckelroy's work at the two sites was making its unique contribution.The two sites under examination, Langdon Bay and Moor Sand, are well-enough known through various interim statements (Baker and Brannigan 1978; Coombs 1976; Muckelroy and Baker 1979; Muckelroy 1980) to require little detailed introduction other than a short description here. Both are important not so much for the particular objects found, but for the implications of the associations and contexts and as a result of the briefest consideration it can be asserted that in the later second millennium BC there existed vessels of size and quality sufficient to transport bulk materials across the channel, probably at regular intervals, and certainly guaranteed of receptions which warranted the organization of Bronze Age shipping by a community or segment of a community.

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Middle Bronze Age trade between Britain and Europe: a maritime perspective

Muckelroy

1981

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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“…They both belong to a group of small narrowbladed axes labelled by C. B. Burgess (1969) the Portrieux type, and included by Briard and Verron (1976) in their Breton Group. The Moor Sand finds had weak loops, and so can be assigned to the latter part of this series.…”

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“…The Moor Sand finds had weak loops, and so can be assigned to the latter part of this series. In Britain, the occurrence of this type has been discussed by Burgess (1969), with further examples since being noted (e.g. Moore, 1976); there has been general agreement that they represent imports or copies of imports.…”

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Two bronze age cargoes in British waters

Muckelroy¹

1980

Antiquity

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He is delighted, as are we, by the creation of an underwater excavation unit at Greenwich, since it is the first 'oficial' support for British maritime archaeology. With the post of Archaeologist Diver in the Archaeological Research Centre, he expects to have the responsibility for establishing an underwater archaeology facility within the Centre. Here he has given us an account of two bronze age cargoes off the British coast, one just east of Dover Harbour, the other just east of Salcombe in Devon.Since the mid-I 96os, significant advances have been made in the techniques and organization of archaeological research in British waters. However, the sites discovered and explored during the first decade of such work have dated without exception to the centuries after 1500 AD. The results from investigations such as those on the Mary Rose of I 545 (Rule, 1978) or the wrecks of the Spanish Armada (Martin, 1975) have clearly

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“…The piece can be securely identified with a type well-known from Brittany, designated by Dr Briard as haches h talon h tranchant etroit, and assigned by him to the local Bronze Moyen 111 (Briard, 1965: 109-22). Dr Burgess, who here terms these palstaves the Portrieux type, has published a note on the incidence of these imports in Britain; his distribution map emphasizes their concentration within the Thames valley and along the coasts of Sussex and Hampshire, the only example from the south-west being one from near Fowey in Cornwall (Burgess, 1969). Within France, the type is not common along the rest of the Channel coast, but has been found frequently further south, especially in the lands between the Loire and Gironde (Burgess, 1969 : 15 1).…”

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“…Dr Burgess, who here terms these palstaves the Portrieux type, has published a note on the incidence of these imports in Britain; his distribution map emphasizes their concentration within the Thames valley and along the coasts of Sussex and Hampshire, the only example from the south-west being one from near Fowey in Cornwall (Burgess, 1969). Within France, the type is not common along the rest of the Channel coast, but has been found frequently further south, especially in the lands between the Loire and Gironde (Burgess, 1969 : 15 1). A noteworthy feature of this particular piece is its skew crosssection, presumably a consequence of damage to the mould before casting; since it appears that the fault here was distortion of the mould rather than the misalignment of the two halves, the implication must be that it was of clay, although surface abrasion makes certainty on this point impossible.…”

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