Late Bronze Age flintworking from ritual zones in Southern Scandinavia / / Mirosław Masojć.

• VerfasserIn: Masojć, Mirosław,
• Place / Publishing House: Oxford : : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd,, [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 264 pages) :; illustrations, maps

This book is devoted to flintworking encountered in the so-called cult houses and ritual zones from the Late Bronze Age in southern Scandinavia, where thousands of barrows were built in the period from the Neolithic to the end of the Early Bronze Age.

Table of Contents

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Plates -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- 1. On the phenomenon of flintworking at the end of the Bronze Age and Beginning of the Iron Age -- 2. Temporal and spatial framework, concept of the work, and methods -- Figure 2.1. Basic spatial framework of the work, in the rectangle, against the background of the extent of cultural traditions of the late Bronze Age in northern and central Europe -- Figure 2.2. Southern Scandinavia. -- Figure 2.3. North-western Jutland - the Thy region, the island of Mors -- Table 2.1. List of main sites discussed in this work. -- 3. Cult houses: definition, idea, chronology -- 3.1. Cult houses from the stone age -- 3.2. Cult features of the Early Bronze Age -- 3.3. Definition -- 3.3.1. Location -- 3.3.2. Construction -- 3.3.3. Character of the artefacts -- 3.4. Idea -- 3.5. Chronology -- Figure 3.1. Skateholm, Sweden. Plan and profiles of a supposed cult house. -- Figure 3.2. Tustrup, Djursland, eastern Jutland. Cult house from the Funnel Beaker culture. -- Figure 3.3. Outlines of cult houses from Funnel Beaker culture in northern Jutland. -- Figure 3.4. Reconstruction of a cult house Tustrup, Djursland -- Figure 3.5. Sennels, Thy. Cult structure from the early Bronze Age -- Figure 3.6. Orientation of selected cult objects from the late Bronze Age -- Figure 3.7. Hågahagen, Uppland, eastern Sweden. Cult house from the early Bronze Age (II-III period EB). -- Figure 3.8. Hågahagen, Uppland, eastern Sweden. -- Figure 3.9. Solar motifs from bronze razors from the vicinity of Viborg in Jutland. -- 4. Specification of source information -- 4.1. Current state of the research -- 4.2. Flint assemblages of the Late Bronze Age - contexts of occurrence -- 4.2.1. Settlement -- 4.2.1.1. General picture, on the basis of Thy -- 4.2.1.2. Bjerre, Thy.

4.2.1.3. Bulbjerg Troldsting, Thy -- 4.2.1.4. Fragtrup, Vesthimmerland -- 4.2.1.5. Højby, Funen -- 4.2.1.6. Skamlebæk, Zealand -- 4.2.1.7. Vinde Helsinge, Zealand -- 4.2.1.8. Voldtofte, Funen -- 4.2.2. Places of acquisition of the raw material and flintworking workshops -- 4.2.2.1. Knudshoved, Funen -- 4.2.2.2. Stagstrup, Thy -- 4.2.3. Flint deposits -- 4.2.4. Flints as funerary finds -- The Sandagergåd cult house -- Sickle from the Stenild peat bog -- Figure 4.1. Tossene Raä, site 446:2-3, Sweden. -- Figure 4.2. Tossene Raä, site 63:1-2, Sweden. -- Figure 4.3. An erratic boulder in site Machary, north-western Poland -- Figure 4.4. Bjerre 7, Thy. Trench 76 during excavations. -- Figure 4.5. Bjerre 7, Thy. Eastern part of trench 76. -- Table 4.1. Bjerre 7, Thy. Structure of flint assemblage -- Figure 4.6. Bjerre 7, Thy. Core with changing orientation -- Figure 4.7. Bjerre 7, Thy. Backed knife (type C) -- Table 4.2. Bjerre 7, Thy. Sizes of backed knives -- Figure 4.8. Bulbjerg Troldsting, Thy. Backed knives in the museum in Copenhagen -- Table 4.3. Bulbjerg Troldting, Thy. Sizes of backed knives according to types A-D. -- Figure 4.10. Fragtrup. House I. Backed knife -- Figure 4.9. Fragtrup. Plan of the site with residential objects -- Table 4.4. Fragtrup. Structure of flint assemblage -- Figure 4.11. Fragtrup. House II. Flake with natural backed edge and point. -- Figure 4.12. Højby. Reconstruction of a three-aisled house located in Odense, -- Figure 4.13. Skamlebæk, Zealand. Backed knives -- Table 4.5. Skamlebæk, Zealand. Sizes of backed knives according to types A-D. -- Figure 4.14. Vinde Helsinge, Zealand. Backed knives -- Table 4.6. Vinde Helsinge, Zealand. Sizes of backed knives according to types A-D. -- Figure 4.15. Voldtofte, Funen (Kirkebjerg). -- Figure 4.16. Voldtofte, Funen (Kirkebjerg).

Figure 4.17. Knudshoved in Funen. Mass material from a flint workshop. -- Figure 4.18. Wierzbica 'Zele' in central Poland. Shaft no. 19. -- Figure 4.19. Knudshoved in Funen. -- Figure 4.20. Knudshoved in Funen. Flint blanks lying on the beach. Massive cores and flakes are seen among the rubble (photograph by the author). -- Figure 4.21. Stagstrup, Thy. Big backed knives from a private collection, possibly the remains of a specialised flint workshop located in the settlement -- Figure 4.22. Sun chariot from Trundholm in Zealand. Dated to the early Bronze Age (1700-1300 BC). -- Figure 4.23. Torup Høje, Jutland. Urn grave in its secondary location at the foot of the barrow. -- Figure 4.24. Torup Høje, Jutland. Urn from grave K49 containing unburnt flint products. -- Figure 4.25. Torup Høje, Jutland. End-scraper on blade from the urn from grave K49 -- Sandagergård cult house, Zealand. -- Sickle from Stenild. -- 5. Diversity of cult features from the Late Bronze Age in Jutland -- 5.1. Cult houses -- 5.2. Semicircular cult features -- 5.3. Torup Høje and successive types of cult features -- 5.4. Tetrahedral stone installations from southern Jutland -- 5.5. Remaining features -- Figure 5.1. Northern Jutland. The vicinity of Thisted -- Figure 5.2. The vicinity of Skjern in central Jutland. -- Figure 5.3. Thy and the island of Mors with barrow mounds marked in the area (points). -- Figure 5.4. Barrows constituting a permanent element of Jutland landscape. -- Figure 5.5. Cult houses preserved in fragments at the foot of the barrows from Thy: -- Figure 5.6. Cult fluted objects from the vicinity of Viborg and Holstebro. -- Figure 5.7. Jernhyt near Haderslev. Southern Jutland. -- Figure 5.8. Potential cult houses from the vicinity of Viborg: -- 6. Cult features with flint assemblages from northern Jutland -- 6.1. Grydehøj, Thy.

6.1.1. Description of the assemblage -- 6.1.2. Raw material -- 6.1.3. Technology -- 6.1.4. Cores -- 6.1.5. Blanks -- 6.1.6. Tools -- 6.1.7. Ad hoc tools -- 6.1.8. Spatial arrangement -- 6.2. Høghs Høj, Thy -- 6.2.1. Description of the assemblage -- 6.2.2. Raw material -- 6.2.3. Technology -- 6.2.4. Cores and blanks -- 6.2.5. Tools -- 6.3. Gramstrup I, Thy -- 6.4. Ginnerup, Thy -- 6.5. Torup Høje, Fjelsø -- 6.5.1. Arrangements of vertically positioned boulders -- 6.5.2. Ditch features -- 6.5.3. Pairs of posthole features -- 6.5.4. Mounds of cobbles -- 6.5.5. Exploration sectors -- 6.5.5.1. Sector A -- 6.5.5.2. Sector B -- 6.5.5.3. Sector C -- 6.5.5.4. Sector D -- 6.5.6. Description of the assemblage -- 6.5.7. Spatial arrangement -- 6.5.8. Raw material -- 6.5.10. Cores -- 6.5.9. Technology -- 6.5.11. Blanks -- 6.5.12. Tools -- Figure 6.1. Grydehøj, Thy. The barrow and the cult house during exploration. -- Figure 6.2. Grydehøj, Thy. -- Figure 6.3. Grydehøj, Thy. Layers of the cult house's fill during exploration -- Figure 6.4. Grydehøj, Thy. Cult house during exploration -- Figure 6.5. Grydehøj, Thy. Cult house during exploration -- Figure 6.6. Grydehøj, Thy. Cult house during exploration -- Figure 6.7. Grydehøj, Thy. Structure of the flint assemblage from the cult house (within stratigraphic units N17and N18). -- Table 6.1. Grydehøj, Thy. Structure of flint assemblage from two stratigraphic units -- Figure 6.8. Grydehøj, Thy. Hammerstones from the interior of the cult house (N18) -- Table 6.2. Grydehøj, Thy. Flint raw material within stratigraphic units -- Figure 6.9. Grydehøj, Thy. Cores from the cult house -- Table 6.3. Grydehøj, Thy. Cores from two stratigraphic units (N17, N18) within the cult house -- Table 6.4. Grydehøj, Thy. Sizes of individual classes of artefacts within stratigraphic units.

Table 6.5. Grydehøj, Thy. Blanks from two stratigraphic units -- Table 6.6. Grydehøj, Thy. Presence and manner of preparing butts of blanks and tools within stratigraphic units (N17, N18) -- Figure 6.10. Grydehøj, Thy. Sizes of blanks. -- Figure 6.11. Grydehøj, Thy. Perforators -- Table 6.7. Grydehøj, Thy. Tools from two stratigraphic units (N17, N18) within the cult house -- Figure 6.12. Grydehøj, Thy. Perforators -- Figure 6.13. Grydehøj, Thy. Notched tools -- Figure 6.14. Grydehøj, Thy. Burins -- Figure 6.15. Grydehøj, Thy. knife-like flakes -- Figure 6.16. Grydehøj, Thy. Distribution of pottery inside the cult house -- -- Figure 6.17. Grydehøj, Thy. Cultural layer inside the cult object with visible numerous flint artefacts and pebbles -- Figure 6.18. Grydehøj, Thy. Quantity ranges of flint products within the cult house in individual quarters of square metres -- Figure 6.19. Grydehøj, Thy. Weight ranges of flint products within the cult house in individual quarters of square metres -- Figure 6.20. Grydehøj, Thy. Quantity ranges in the category of chips from the cult house in individual quarters of square metres -- Figure 6.21. Grydehøj, Thy. Quantity ranges of blanks from the cult house in individual quarters of square metres -- Figure 6.22. Grydehøj, Thy. Frequency of cores in individual quarters of square metres -- Figure 6.23. Grydehøj, Thy. Occurrence of tools in individual quarters of square metres -- Figure 6.24. Høghs Høj, Thy. Cult house (bright background) at the foot of the barrow (darker background) -- Figure 6.25. Høghs Høj, Thy. Cult house -- Figure 6.26. Høghs Høj, Thy. Cult house. View from the barrow -- Table 6.8. Høghs Høj, Thy. Structure of the flint assemblage -- Figure 6.27. Høghs Høj, Thy. Fragment of flint collection from the cult house -- Figure 6.28. Høghs Høj, Thy. Structure of the flint assemblage from the cult house.

Table 6.9. Høghs Høje, Thy. Cores within the cult house.