Fiskerton / Naomi Field, Michael Parker Pearson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Field, Naomi, author.

Parker Pearson, Michael, 1957- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical antiquities.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 226 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Fiskerton

Place of Publication:

Oxbow Books 2003

Oxford ; Oakville, CT : Oxbow Books, 2003.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Fiskerton, located in the Witham valley of Lincoln, is one of only a handful of excavated sites in Europe to reveal the Iron Age practice of ritually destroying special and elite objects by placing them in a body of water.

Contents:

List of illustrations; Preface (N Field and M Parker Pearson); Summary - Resume - Zusammenfassung; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; The timber causeway; The environmental setting of the causeway; The wooden remains; The Iron Age weaponry and tools; The other Iron Age artefacts; The Roman and Medieval artefacts; The human and animal bones; The Fiskerton causeway; Fiskerton in its local and regional setting; The Fiskerton votive assemblage and its context; The British and European context of Fiskerton; Regional social dynamics in later Prehistoric eastern England; Appendix: other archaeological excavations at Fiskerton; References; Colour plates; Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

CC BY-NC-ND

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ISBN:

9781789256499

1789256496