Some Decorated Iron Age Pottery from Chinnor

Champion, T

doi:10.1017/s0003581500030651

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“…The Burderop Down evidence could allow for such an admixture in the early Ewart Park period of the ninth century B.C., and Champion has recently argued that assemblages containing furrowed bowls may be back-dated to the tenth century B.C. (Champion 1975), thus closing the gap between the two ends of the sequence. One complication here is that the settlement record in many areas of Wessex, in particular the chalk upland, may show some dislocation, and we may be seeking continuity where none exists (Barrett and Bradley 1980b).…”

Section: Wessexmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…5). Champion has argued that the decorative motifs on the Chinnor bowl series include skeuomorphic representations of the handle fitments of metal containers, indicating a familiarity with Mediterranean metal forms which are not otherwise now represented in these islands (Champion 1977). On the basis of these comparisons it is unnecessary to think that metal and ceramic vessels fulfilled the same functions, indeed the metal vessels from Welby and Glen-313 tannar are, in terms of size, not comparable to the ceramic bowls but rather to the cups (Welby, c. 120 cc, Glentannar c. 200 cc; fig.…”

Section: The Nature Of the Ceramic Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Champion has demonstrated the illogicality of archaeological studies which terminate at modern political boundaries, and has gone on to re-assert the comparisons which exist between early Iron Age material in eastern England and in the Low Countries (Champion 1975). We can support this argument by recognising the unity of material culture which embraces a network of coastwise routes about the North Sea.…”

Section: The Regional Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…These changes can in part be explained by the development of an iron technology (Barrett and Bradley 1980b). To the east the links between eastern England and the Low Countries remain, both in terms of the ceramic styles of the early Iron Age (Champion 1975), and in the distribution of Hallstatt C metalwork (Cowen 1967, Map D). For Wessex comparisons of ceramic style have, in the past, been drawn with western Urnfield material (Hawkes 1959, 17;Cunliffe 1978, 33), and the distribution of Armorican socketed axes in Wessex indicates the re-establishment of cross-channel links.…”

Section: The Regional Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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The Pottery of the Later Bronze Age in Lowland England

Barrett

1980

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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This paper discusses the development of pottery styles in southern and eastern England during the first half of the first millennium B.C. The region discussed is Hawkes' Southern Province (1959, fig. 1), and excursions will also be made into the Eastern Province (fig. 1).The discussion of settlement sequences, and the dating of individual sites, is still largely dependent upon ceramic refuse derived from such sites. The analysis of settlement patterns for the earlier part of the first millennium B.C. thus rests upon our understanding of the ceramic traditions of that period, and this has led to considerable confusion. Two problems must be isolated at the outset. The first results from the re-evaluation of British Bronze Age chronology which took place in the 1950's, leading to Hawkes' 1960 scheme and then to Burgess' rather rigid reading of the evidence nine years later (Butler and Smith 1956; Smith, M. A. 1959; Smith, I. F. 1961; Hawkes 1960; Burgess 1969). The main effect, if we are to follow Burgess, was to draw Beakers, Food Vessels and most Urn forms back into an early Bronze Age the end of which, around 1400 B.C., was marked by the end of the Wessex grave series. As for the Middle and Late Bronze Age Burgess concluded that ‘over much of the British Isles there are no settlements, burials, defended sites, pottery, or other non-metallic cultural material which can safely be assigned to the Middle or Late Bronze Age. There are a few localized exceptions such as the Deverel-Rimbury culture and Flat-rim ware’ (Burgess 1969, 29).

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Section: Wessexmentioning

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