ISBN:
9781138813526
Sprache:
Englisch
Seiten:
Online-Ressource (329 p)
Serie:
Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology
Paralleltitel:
Print version The Ancient Burial-mounds of England
DDC:
393
Schlagwort(e):
Electronic books
Kurzfassung:
〈P〉First published in 1936 and rewritten in 1953, this book embodies the results of the author's extensive researches and fieldwork. Part one considers types of barrows and dating, their building and the cult of the dead from Palaeolithic to Saxon times. A chapter is dedicated to maps and another to fieldwork in particular, while the final bit of the introductory material discussed barrow-digging from the time of the Romans to the twentieth century. Part two is the regional surveys, from Cornwall to Kent and northwards to the Scottish border.〈/P〉
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Original Title Page; Original Copyright Page; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Table of Contents; List of Figures and Plates; PART I. ASPECTS OF BARROW STUDY; INTRODUCTORY; CHAPTER I TYPE AND CHRONOLOGY; LONG BARROWS; Chambered; Earthen; ROUND BARROWS CONTAINING NEOLITHIC FEATURES; Chambered; Earthen; EARLY AND MIDDLE BRONZE AGE ROUND BARROWS; Round barrows of the Beaker folk; Round barrows of Wessex Early Bronze Age culture; Bowl, Bell, Bell-disc, Disc, Saucer, Pond.; Other round barrows of Early and Middle Bronze Age
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
Containing primary interments with food vesselscontaining primary cremations with Middle Bronze Age urns; LATE BRONZE AGE ROUND BARROWS; EARLY IRON AGE ROUND BARROWS; Iron Age A; Iron Age B; Iron Age C; ROMAN BARROWS; PAGAN SAXON BARROWS; Chieftains' Barrows; Grave-mounds; VIKING BARROWS; CHAPTER II THE CULT OF THE DEAD; Introduction; PALAEOLITHIC; The deceased; the mourners; MESOLITHIC; The deceased; the mourners; NEOLITHIC; The deceased; the mourners; EARLY AND MIDDLE BRONZE AGE; The deceased; The after-life; grave goods; condition of the grave goods; promotion of rebirth or immortality
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
the tomb as a house for the deadmethods of interment; The mourners; Protection from deceased; the funeral feast; fumigation of the tomb; customs leaving no archaeological trace; LATE BRONZE AGE; The deceased; the mourners; EARLY IRON AGE A; The deceased; the mourners; EARLY IRON AGE B; The deceased; the mourners; EARLY IRON AGE C; The deceased; the mourners; ROMAN; The deceased; the mourners; PAGAN SAXON; The deceased; the mourners; VIKING; The deceased; the mourners; CONCLUSION: The survival of the pagan cult of the dead; The deceased; The deposit of white quartz pebbles
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
the southern position of secondary and intrusive intermentsthe voyage to the after-life; the ferryman's fee; The mourners; Prevention of the return of the dead; deposit of 'shards, flints, and pebbles'; the breaking of vessels as a funerary rite; adding stones to cairns; CHAPTER III CONSTRUCTION; PRELIMINARY; Organization of the workmen; appliances; metrology; siting; planning; preparing and levelling the ground; material used-local and foreign; THE STONEWORK OF CHAMBERED BARROWS; The gallery and burial chambers; the mound or cairn; the entrance; EARTHEN LONG BARROWS; The primary deposit
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
timber structuresthe mound; the berm; the ditch; wooden posts to indicate interments; ROUND BARROWS; The primary grave or cist; the primary deposit; material of the mound or cairn; the berm; the ditch; avenues or rows of stones or posts extending from the barrow; CHAPTER IV LOCAL NAMES; GENERAL; PARTICULAR; CHAPTER V FOLKLORE; Conditions favouring survival of folk tradition; SOME ELEMENTS COMPRISING TRADITION; Verbal conundrums; folk etymology; divine judgements; wishful thinking; buried treasure; concept of the impossible or improbable; interplay of folklore elements
Beschreibung / Inhaltsverzeichnis:
THE STRATA OF ANCIENT FOLKLORE
Anmerkung:
Description based upon print version of record
