The Wessex culture: a minimal view

Coles, John; Taylor, Joan

doi:10.1017/s0003598x00068988

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“…Recent doubts about the definition, nature and chronology of the 'Wessex Culture' suggest that it represents an episode that is less well understood than seemed formerly to be the case. Of particular relevance to the present discussion are the arguments of Coles and Taylor (1971) that the division into two phases is artificial, that the presumed duration of the episode over a period of two centuries centred on 1500 be is disputable, and that the time of deposition of 'Wessex' grave-goods need have occupied no more than 50 years in or around the seventeenth century be. Pending the resolution of these difficulties, it is most convenient to correlate the beginning of Phase 4 with the appearance of battle-axes in beaker graves and its end, so far as this can be established, with the abandonment of the custom of interring battle-axes and other personal possessions with the dead.…”

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The petrological identification of stone implements from South-Western England: Fifth Report of the Sub-Committee of the South-Western Federation of Museums and Art Galleries

Evens¹,

Smith²,

Wallis³

1972

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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The present report is the fifth to be issued by this Committee in the course of 35 years' work on the petrological identification of stone implements. The four earlier reports (Keiller, Piggott and Wallis, 1941; Stone and Wallis, 1947; Stone and Wallis, 1951; Evens, Grinsell, Piggott and Wallis, 1962—hereafter referred to as the Fourth Report) were concerned primarily with stone implements from South-Western England, but also included implements from other parts of the British Isles. Since the early 1960s, when a series of regional implement petrology surveys was set up under the aegis of the Council for British Archaeology, this Committee's official work has been confined to the South-West, a region which, for administrative purposes, now comprises the seven counties of Berkshire, Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Somerset and Wiltshire, together with the Channel Islands. Hampshire, formerly within this Committee's area of special interest, has been allocated to the South-East, with Sussex, Surrey and Kent. The present report is concerned, therefore, exclusively with implements from the South-West, as defined above.

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The petrological identification of stone implements from South-Western England: Fifth Report of the Sub-Committee of the South-Western Federation of Museums and Art Galleries

Evens¹,

Smith²,

Wallis³

1972

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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“…Neither claim is clearly justifiable (Gerloff 1975: 201). Coles & Taylor (1971) went further and suggested that the available evidence does not support any subdivision, and that the production of gold may fall within a relatively short period.…”

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Wessex with and without Mycenae: new evidence from Switzerland

Barfield

1991

Antiquity

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“…Bush Barrow is central to the definition with Upton Lovell G2(e), Wilsford G8, Clandon Barrow etc., of a group of early bronze-age burials from southern England which show clear links with equivalent burials in Brittany (Piggott 1938). At the same time the main pieces of the goldwork can be seen to be one of the first sets of material that can with reasonable certainty be ascribed to the fine design skills and craftsmanship of one individual or his atelier (Coles & Taylor 1971).…”

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