Transformation through destruction : : a monumental and extraordinary Early Iron Age Hallstatt C barrow from the ritual landscape of Oss-Zevenbergen / / edited by D. Fontijn, S. van der Vaart & R. Jansen.
Some 2800 years ago, a man died in what is now the municipality of Oss, the Netherlands. His death must have been a significant event in the life of local communities, for he received an extraordinary funeral, which ended with the construction of an impressive barrow. Based on the meticulous excavat...
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Place / Publishing House: | Leiden : : Sidestone Press,, [2013] ©2013 |
Year of Publication: | 2013 |
Language: | English |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (346 pages) :; illustrations |
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Table of Contents:
- Intro
- Preface
- 1 The last mound(s) of Zevenbergen - cause, aims, and methods of the 2007 fieldwork campaign
- 2 The physical and archaeological landscape of the Oss-Zevenbergen barrow group
- 3 "Mound" 6: a post and ditch aligned long barrow
- 4 Excavating the seventh mound
- 5 The central find assemblage of mound 7
- 6 The urn, bone, and iron from the central find assemblage in mound 7
- 7 Dismantled, transformed, and deposited - prehistoric bronze from the centre of mound 7
- 8 Conservation starts in the field - the retrieval and conservation of the finds from Oss-Zevenbergen
- 9 Bronze studs: colouring, reconstruction, and conservation
- 10 The local vegetation at the time of the construction of the Oss-Zevenbergen mounds 7 and 6
- 11 An attempt to chemically identify the organic material inside the bronze studs from mound 7 using DT-MS
- 12 Analysis of the cremated bone from mound 7
- 13 A secondary burial in mound 7 - a macabre reuse of the Oss-Zevenbergen barrows in the Late Medieval Period
- 14 Mesolithic finds in an Iron Age barrow
- 15 Excavating the surroundings of the Oss-Zevenbergen mounds (6 and 7)
- 16 Conclusion: the seventh mound of seven mounds - long-term history of the Zevenbergen barrow landscape
- 17 Preserving and presenting the mounds and finds of Oss-Zevenbergen
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1
- Appendix 2
- Acknowledgments
- Colophon
- Summary.