Proceedings of the 17th Iron Age Research Student Symposium, Edinburgh : : 29th May - 1st June 2014.

• Author: Erskine, Graeme Jr.
• TeilnehmendeR: Jacobsson, Piotr.; Miller, Paul.
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress,, 2016.; ©2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (179 pages)

Proceedings of the 17th Iron Age Research Student Symposium held in Edinburgh, organised to reflect three general themes (migration/interaction, material culture and the built environment).

Table of Contents

Cover -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Contributors -- Introduction -- Paul Miller, Graeme Erskine, Piotr Jacobsson and Scott Stetkiewicz -- Revisiting Migrations in Archaeology: -- Revisiting Migrations in Archaeology: -- The Aisne-Marne and the Hunsrück-Eifel Cultures -- The Aisne-Marne and the Hunsrück-Eifel Cultures -- Dr Manuel Fernández-Götz -- Reassessing Migrations: The Baby and the Bathwater -- Towards New Lands: The Champagne - Italy Connection -- From Centralisation to Decentralisation: The Hunsrück-Eifel Culture -- Climate Change and Resistance to Hierarchy -- Bibliography -- The Future of Migration Studies -- Figure 1: Diagram of a migratory process (Modified from Anthony 1990: fig 1). -- Figure 2: Physical map of the main area covered by the study, with indication of the Champagne, the Belgian Ardennes and the Hunsrück-Eifel region (after Fernández-Götz 2014). -- Figure 3: Comparison between Late Iron Age objects found in Marne (France) and Marzabotto (Italy) (after Mortillet 1871). -- Figure 4: Sites of the La Tène A, B, C and D periods in the Hunsrück-Eifel area. The distribution maps clearly reflect the fall in population during La Tène B -here the decline appears to have occurred mainly in La Tène B2- and La Tène C (after Fernández- -- Figure 4: Sites of the La Tène A, B, C and D periods in the Hunsrück-Eifel area. The distribution maps clearly reflect the fall in population during La Tène B -here the decline appears to have occurred mainly in La Tène B2- and La Tène C (after Fernández- -- Figure 5: Evolution of solar activity between ca. 1300 BC and 100 AD (after Pare et al. 2009, reproduced with permission). -- A reassessment of the Iron Age and Roman material -- from Lagore crannóg, Co. Meath -- 'My kingdom for a pot!' -- A reassessment of the Iron Age and Roman material.

from Lagore crannóg, Co. Meath -- Alexandra Guglielmi -- Lagore crannóg: a presentation -- The prehistoric and Roman material from Lagore -- Swords -- Barrel padlock -- Roman pottery -- Lagore before the crannóg: an Iron Age sacred lake? -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Conclusion -- 'My kingdom for a pot!' -- Figure 1: Swords from Lagore ©Hencken 1950: fig.55. Reproduced with permission of the Royal Irish Academy -- Figure 2: Roman barrel padlock from the Rath of the Synods, Tara. ©Grogan 2008: fig. 4.11. Courtesy of UCD School of Archaeology -- Figure 3: Samian pottery from Lagore © Hencken 1950: fig. 57. Reproduced with permission from the Royal Irish Academy -- Figure 4: Lagore in its prehistoric setting: a starting point for a procession to Tara? -- When is a mortarium not a mortarium? Analogies and interpretation in Roman Cumbria -- When is a mortarium not a mortarium? Analogies and interpretation in Roman Cumbria -- Analogies in Archaeology -- Jennifer Peacock -- British Archaeology -- Interpretation in Romano- -- Case Study: Farmsteads and Mortaria in Cumbria -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Conclusion -- (after Bernbeck 2000: 143) -- Figure 1: Single-tiered archaeological analogies -- Figure 2: Two-tiered archaeological analogies -- Figure 3: Three-tiered archaeological analogies -- Figure 4: 'Nested' analogies - structuralism -- Figure 5: A typical mortarium found in Roman Britain (after Cramp et al. 2011: Figure 1: 1340, reproduced with permission) -- Shapeless Jars in Iron Age East Yorkshire -- Technical Weakness or Cultural Strength? -- Figure 6: Hermeneutic cycle of interpretation -- Shapeless Jars in Iron Age East Yorkshire -- Helen Chittock -- Investigating change in Iron Age East Yorkshire through Shapeless Jars -- Changing Ceramic Forms -- Tradition and Identity -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Concluding points.

Technical Weakness or Cultural Strength? -- (data from Rigby 2004). The sample for this paper is shown within the blue box. -- Figure 1: The dating of features excavated during the British Museum Yorkshire Settlements Project -- Figure 2: A Shapeless Jar from Hanging Cliff, Kilham (Pit HA29). The author after Rigby (2004), scale added by author. -- (data from Rigby 2004). -- Figure 3: A table showing the decreasing variety in vessel forms in Rigby's typological groupings -- Figure 4: Ceramic forms at Hanging Cliff between 900 and 600 BC (data from Rigby 2004). -- (data from Rigby 2004). -- Divine Horsemen: equine imagery in Iron Age chariot terrets -- Figure 5: The percentages of Shapeless Jars recorded at sites in the Burton Agnes locality -- Divine Horsemen: equine imagery in Iron Age chariot terrets -- Anna Lewis -- Acknowledgements -- Bibliography -- Figure 1: Terret from Cold Kitchen Hill, Wiltshire. Image by the author, reproduced with permission of Wiltshire Museum, Devizes. -- Figure 2: Close-up of detail on crescentic plaque from Llyn Cerrig Bach, Anglesey. Image © National Museum Wales - Amgueddfa Cymru, reproduced under the terms of the Creative Archive Licence of the People's Collection Wales. -- Figure 3: Close-up of detail on terret from the Polden Hills hoard, Somerset. Image by Philippa Lewis. -- Figure 4: Close-up of detail on terret from the Polden Hills hoard, Somerset. Image by Philippa Lewis. -- Figure 5: "Horse-mask" mount from Stanwick/Melsonby, North Yorkshire. Image © Trustees of the British Museum, reproduced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

Figure 6: Terret from Silverdale, Lancashire. Image © Portable Antiquities Scheme/British Museum, reproduced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. -- Figure 7: Linchpin from Kirkburn chariot burial, East Yorkshire. Image © Trustees of the British Museum, reproduced under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence. -- Burials of Martial Character in the British Iron Age -- Burials of Martial Character in the British Iron Age -- Introduction -- Past Research -- Yvonne L Inall -- 'Warrior' Burials with shield, sword and spear -- Offensive Weapons -- Spears and 'Speared-corpse' Burials -- Swords, 'Sword Burials' and daggers -- Arrowheads and Sling-stones in burials -- Non-Offensive Martial Objects -- Shields -- Armour and Helmets -- Ritual Destruction and Inverted Placement of Martial Objects -- Alternative Placement of Martial Objects: Rites of reversal -- Ritual Destruction -- Bibliography -- Conclusions -- Supplemental file: Full list of Burials -- Figure 1: Sites with Martial Burials confidently dated to the Iron Age. -- Figure 2: Number of Martial burials by County (confident and possible Iron Age burials) -- Figure 3: Number of Iron Age burials of martial character by funerary rite. -- Figure 4: Iron Age burials including shield, sword and iron spearhead (* indicates a 'speared-corpse' burial). -- Figure 5: Map showing Iron Age burials with shield, sword and one or more iron spearhead/s. -- Figure 6: Associations between martial objects in Iron Age burials in Britain, burials of confident Iron Age date. -- Figure 7: Overall sword length (mm) in accordance with Stead (2006). * - indicates incomplete sword -- Iron Age Iron Production in Britain and the Near Continent -- Figure 1: Simplified iron production chaîne opératoire.

Iron Age Iron Production in Britain and the Near Continent -- Scott Stetkiewicz -- Methodology -- Non-Reduced Compounds -- Technical Characterization -- Slag "Optima" -- Grantown Road, Forres -- Non-Reduced Compounds -- Technical Characterization -- Interpretation -- Slag Optima -- Conclusion -- Bibliography: -- Figure 2: Normalized SEM-EDS compositional values of the Grantown Road Slag (weight %). -- Figure 3: Grantown Road slag plotted in ternary space. -- Figure 4: Furnace slag. -- Figure 5: "Tap" slag. -- Figure 6: Contact slag. -- Figure 7: NRC bivariate scatter plots of the Grantown Road assemblage. -- Figure 8: Scottish Iron Age iron assemblages. -- Cave sanctuaries and votive offerings in Oretania -- Religion and society -- Cave sanctuaries and votive offerings in Oretania -- Cristina Manzaneda Martín -- Introduction -- Oretania and the Oretani -- Tradition and popular religiosity -- The cave sanctuaries -- Monumentalization and political sacralization -- A place for men and women -- Conclusions -- Bibliography -- Religion and society -- Figure 1: Map of Oretani territory and some of the most important oppida connected by some of the main pre-Roman roads. -- Figure 2: View of Castellar sanctuary in 1918 (Archivo Cabré, Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España, Nº Inv. 4275) (Copyright in the public domain). -- Figure 3: View of the hillside of Collado de los Jardines sanctuary (Santa Elena, Jaén) between 1916 and 1918 (Archivo Cabré, Instituto del Patrimonio Cultural de España, Nº Inv. 4771) -- Figure 4: A: Ex-voto in a war initiation ritual (Álvarez-Ossorio 1941: Lám. XXXII, nº 202) -- B: couple in a coming of age rite (Álvarez-Ossorio 1941: Lám. CIV, nº 2360 and Lám. CII, nº 1374) (Image out of copyright). -- Figure 5: A and B: ex-voti associated to fecundity rites (Álvarez-Ossorio 1941: Lám. LIII, nº 358 and Lám. XXVII, nº 177).

C and D: newborn (Álvarez-Ossorio 1941: Lám. XCV, nº 1332).