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.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fontijn, D.

Vaart-Verschoof, Sasja van der.

Jansen, R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mounds--Netherlands--Oss.

Mounds.

Funeral rites and ceremonies--Netherlands--Oss--History.

Funeral rites and ceremonies.

Oss (Netherlands)--Antiquities.

Oss (Netherlands).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (351 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Leiden : Sidestone Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 excavation and a range of specialist and comprehensive studies of finds, a prehistoric burial ritual now can be brought to life in surprising detail. An Iron Age community used extraordinary objects that find their closest counterpart in the elite graves of the Hallstatt culture in Central Europe. This boo

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-8890-169-4

OCLC:

842881589