Dress and Identity in Iron Age Britain : A Study of Glass Beads and Other Objects of Personal Adornment.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Foulds, Elizabeth Marie.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Glass beads.

Clothing and dress.

Iron age.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (357 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Other Title:

Dress and Identity in Iron Age Britain

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress, 2017.

Summary:

Through an analysis of glass beads from four key study regions in Britain, the book aims to explore the role that this object played within the networks and relationships that constructed Iron Age society.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Preface

Copyright Information &amp

Image Acknowledgements

Sites Mentioned in Text

Chapter 1 Introduction

An Introduction to Previous Studies of Glass Beads

Aims of Current Research

Methodology

Identified Issues

Study Regions

Data Acquisition and Organisation

Analyses

Layout

Aims_of_current_research

Figure 1: Compilation map of all of Guido's (1978a) original data.

Figure 2: Identification of project study regions.

Layout_of_thesis

Chapter 2 Previous Approaches to Glass Beads

Guido Typology

Scientific Analysis of Iron Age Glass Beads

Glass Bead Manufacturing

The Wider European Context

Conclusion

Figure 3: Guido's (redrawn after 1978a Figure 1) sixteen decorative motifs.

Figure 4: Schematic diagram of Guido's Iron Age and Roman glass bead classification (redrawn after 1978a Plates I &amp

II, Figure 19, 23, 37).

Figure 5: Applying linear decoration during glass bead manufacture.

Figure 6: Haevernick's (1960) eight main types of beads (author's translation).

Introduction

People_and_Objects

Chapter 3 Glass Beads &amp

Dress

People and Objects

Dress and Society

Dress and Archaeology

Dress, the Body, and Identity in Archaeology

Dress in Iron Age Britain

Human Iconography

Death and the Body

Artefacts of Dress

Artefacts and Colour

Artefacts as Dates

Artefact Production and Exchange

Artefacts and Identity

Summary

Figure 7: Details from the Gundestrup Cauldron (held in collections at National Museum of Denmark). (a) Detail of antler figure, interior Plate A, (b) Detail of panel, exterior Plate F.

Figure 8: Drawing of the Roos Carr figures from East Yorkshire (held in collections at Hull &amp

East Riding Museums:Hull Museums KINCM:1991.141.10876).

Figure 9: Back view of chalk figurine from East Yorkshire (Hull &amp

East Riding Museums:Hull Museums KINCM:2006.11303.4576).

Chapter_4_The_Iron_Age_to_Earl

Southwest_England

Chapter 4 The Nature of the Archaeological Resource in the Regions

The Archaeological Resource

Southwest England

East Anglia

East Yorkshire

Impact of Developer-funded Archaeology

Northeast Scotland

Patterns of Iron Age Settlement

Discussion

Ritual/Treatment of the Dead

Figure 10: Key sites in Southwest England mentioned in the text.

Figure 11: Key sites in East Anglia mentioned in the text.

Figure 12: Key sites in East Yorkshire mentioned in the text.

Figure 13: Key sites in Northeast Scotland mentioned in the text.

Chapter_5_Typology_Conundrums_

Chapter 5 Typological Conundrums, Quandaries, and Resolutions

Typological Complications

Critique of the Guido Typology

General Problems with the Guido Typology

New Typology

Typology Description

Bead Class and Type Analysis

Types in the Study Regions

Chronology

Figure 14: List of Guido classes and the number of examples recorded by Guido, compared to the number contained in the database that resulted from the current research. It also shows the number of beads that were studied first-hand.

Figure 15: List of Guido Groups and the number of examples included in her catalogue, compared to the number contained in the database that resulted from the current research. It also shows the number of examples that were studied first-hand.

Figure 16: (a) Scatter-graph showing the overall size of Class 1 beads by Guido sub-type, and pie-charts showing (b) the proportion of different number of eye motifs and (c) the proportion of different types of shaped Guido Class 1 beads.

Figure 17: Analysis of Guido Class 3 beads (a) Scatter-graph showing the overall size, and pie-charts showing (b) the proportion of beads by number of eyes, (c) the proportion of different colours used for the body of the bead, and

Figure 17: Analysis of Guido Class 3 beads (d) the proportion of different colours used for decoration.

Figure 18: Analysis of Guido Class 10 and 13 beads (a) pie-chart showing the proportion of different Guido Class 10 shapes, (b) pie-chart showing the proportion of different colours of glass used for the body of Guido Class 13 beads.

Figure 18: Analysis of Guido Class 10 and 13 beads (c) scatter-graph of Guido Class 10 beads showing dimensions and shape, and (d) scatter-graph of Guido Class 13 beads showing dimensions and shape.

Figure 19: Comparison of Guido Class 7, 9, and 14 beads (a) scatter-graph comparing overall size.

Figure 19: Comparison of Guido Class 7, 9, and 14 beads (b) bar-charts comparing the proportion of Class 7 body and (c) decorative colours.

Figure 19: Comparison of Guido Class 7, 9, and 14 beads (d) bar-charts comparing the proportion of Class 9 body and (e) decorative colours.

Figure 19: Comparison of Guido Class 7, 9, and 14 beads (f) bar-charts comparing the proportion of Class 14 body and (g) decorative colours.

Figure 20: Scatter-graph comparing the dimensions of Guido Class 8 beads.

Figure 21: Scatter-graph comparing the dimensions of Guido Group 6 and 7 beads with guideline for perfect sphere (x) and 'annular' shape (x/2).

Figure 22: Schematic diagram of Guido typology chronology in typological order.

Figure 23: Schematic diagram of Guido typology chronology in chronological order.

Discussion-1

Figure 24: Schematic diagram showing the hierarchy of new glass bead types.

Figure 25: Frequency of Class 1 beads in the study regions.

Figure 26: Frequency of Class 2 beads in the study regions.

Figure 27: Frequency of Class 3 beads in the study regions.

Figure 28: Frequency of Class 4 beads in the study regions.

Figure 29: Frequency of Class 5 beads in the study regions.

Figure 30: Frequency of Class 6 beads in the study regions.

Figure 31: Frequency of Class 7 beads in the study regions.

Figure 32: Frequency of Class 8 beads in the study regions.

Figure 33: Frequency of Class 9 beads in the study regions.

Figure 34: Frequency of Class 10 beads in the study regions.

Figure 35: Frequency of Class 11 beads in the study regions.

Figure 36: Summary table of presence and absence of new types. (1) Southwest England, (2) East Anglia, (3) East Yorkshire, and (4) Northeast Scotland.

Southwest_England-1

Figure 37: Bar chart showing the frequency of total datable glass beads in study regions.

Figure 38: Bar chart showing (a) the frequency and (b) the percentage of total datable glass beads by study region.

East_Anglia-1

East_Yorkshire-1

Northeast_Scotland-1

Chronology_Discussion

Discussion-2

Figure 39: Bar chart showing (a) the number and (b) the percentage of the quantity of colours of glass beads over time.

Figure 40: Bar chart showing (a) the number and (b) the percentage of different general motif type over time.

Conclusion-3

Chapter 6 Form and Regional Identity

Shape

Size

Size Analysis

Size Discussion

Colour

Monochrome Beads

Polychrome Beads

Decorative Motif

Decorative Motif Analysis

Conclusion.

Shape

Figure 41: Number of glass beads per study region.

Figure 42: Bar-chart showing the frequency of shape for all study regions combined.

Figure 43: Bar-charts showing the use of bead shapes in (a) Southwest England, (b) East Anglia, (c) East Yorkshire, and (d) Northeast Scotland.

Figure 44: Bar-chart comparing (a) the frequency of glass bead shape and (b) the percentage of glass bead shape between the four study regions.

Figure 45: (a) Descriptive statistics for Diameter/Width measurement.

Figure 45: (b) histogram of the Diameter/Width measurement of glass beads for all beads in study regions.

Figure 46: Histogram showing Diameter/Width measurement for (a) Southwest England, (b) East Anglia, (c) East Yorkshire, and (d) Northeast Scotland.

Figure 47: (a) Descriptive statistics for Height measurement.

Figure 47: (b) histogram of the Height measurement of glass beads for all beads in study regions.

Figure 48: Histogram showing Height measurement for (a) southwest England, (b) East Anglia, (c) East Yorkshire, (d) Northeast Scotland.

Figure 49: (a) Descriptive statistics for Perforation Diameter measurement.

Figure 49: (b) histogram of the Perforation Diameter measurement of glass beads for all beads in study regions.

Figure 50: Histogram showing Perforation Diameter measurement for (a) Southwest England, (b) East Anglia, (c) East Yorkshire, (d) Northeast Scotland.

Figure 51: Scatter-graph plotting the Diameter/Width measurement against the Height measurement for all beads in study regions.

Figure 52: Scatter-graph plotting the Diameter/Width against the Height for beads from (a) Southwest England, (b) East Anglia.

Figure 52: Scatter-graph plotting the Diameter/Width against the Height for beads from (c) East Yorkshire, (d) Northeast Scotland.

Figure 53: Scatter-graph plotting the Diam:Height ratio against the Perforation Diameter measurement for all beads in study regions.

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ISBN:

9781784915278

1784915270

OCLC:

987455829