The Arras culture of Eastern Yorkshire-celebrating the iron age : proceedings of 'arras 200-celebrating the iron age', royal archaeological institute annual conference, 2017 / edited Peter Halkon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Halkon, Peter, Editor.

Contributor:

Halkon, Peter, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Iron age--England--Yorkshire.

Iron age.

La Tène period--England--Yorkshire.

La Tène period.

Excavations (Archaeology)--England--Yorkshire.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 pages)

Place of Publication:

Casemate 2020

Summary:

In 1817 a group of East Yorkshire gentry opened barrows in a large Iron Age cemetery on the Yorkshire Wolds at Arras, near Market Weighton, including a remarkable burial accompanied by a chariot with two horses, which became known as the King's Barrow. This was the third season of excavation undertaken there, producing spectacular finds including a further chariot burial and the so-called Queen's barrow, which contained a gold ring, many glass beads and other items. These and later discoveries would lead to the naming of the Arras Culture, and the suggestion of connections with the near European continent. Since then further remarkable finds have been made in the East Yorkshire region, including 23 chariot burials, most recently at Pocklington in 2017 and 2018, where both graves contained horses, and were featured on BBC 4's Digging for Britain series. This volume bring together papers presented by leading experts at the Royal Archaeological Institute Annual Conference, held at the Yorkshire Museum, York, in November 2017, to celebrate the bicentenary of the Arras discoveries. The remarkable Iron Age archaeology of eastern Yorkshire is set into wider context by views from Scotland, the south of England and Iron Age Western Europe. The book covers a wide variety of topics including migration, settlement and landscape, burials, experimental chariot building, finds of various kinds and reports on the major sites such as Wetwang/Garton Slack and Pocklington.

Contents:

Book Title List of contributors Introduction 1 Setting the scene - landscape and settlement in Iron Age eastern Yorkshire: Peter Halkon 2 The Iron Age cemetery at Pocklingtonand other excavations by MAP: Mark Stephens and Paula Ware 3 Excavations in Garton Slack andWetwang Slack 1963-1989: John Strickland Dent 4 Wide connections: women, mobility andpower in Iron Age East Yorkshire: Melanie Giles, Victoria Green and Pedro Peixoto 5 New light on Iron Age warfare in Britain: Yvonne Inall 6 Isotopes and chariots: diet, subsistenceand origins of Iron Age people from Yorkshire: Mandy Jay and Janet Montgomery 7 Reconstructing British chariots: Robert Hurford 8 Perpetual motion: a reading of the artistic andcultural significance of Iron Age terrets: Anna Lewis 9 Pattern and plainness in middleIron Age East Yorkshire: Helen Chittock 10 A northern view of Arras:or, we have chariots too: Fraser Hunter 11 A view from the south: Timothy Champion 12 Migrations in Iron Age Europe:a comparative view: Manuel Fernández-Götz

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789252613

178925261X

9781789252590

1789252598