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Gristhorpe Man.: A Life and Death in the Bronze Age
Nigel D. Melton
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Description for Gristhorpe Man.: A Life and Death in the Bronze Age
Hardcover.
In July 1834 excavation of a barrow at Gristhorpe, near Scarborough, Yorkshire, recovered an intact, waterlogged, hollowed-out oak coffin containing a perfectly preserved Bronze Age skeleton that had been wrapped in an animal skin and buried with worked flints, a bronze dagger with a whalebone pommel, and a bark vessel apparently containing food residue. Gristhorpe Man became the centrepiece of the Scarborough Philosophical Society’s museum display.
In 2004, planned refurbishment of the renamed Rotunda Museum provided the opportunity for a scientific re-examination of the burial and grave goods in order to eluciate the life and death of this extraordinary ... Read more
In July 1834 excavation of a barrow at Gristhorpe, near Scarborough, Yorkshire, recovered an intact, waterlogged, hollowed-out oak coffin containing a perfectly preserved Bronze Age skeleton that had been wrapped in an animal skin and buried with worked flints, a bronze dagger with a whalebone pommel, and a bark vessel apparently containing food residue. Gristhorpe Man became the centrepiece of the Scarborough Philosophical Society’s museum display.
In 2004, planned refurbishment of the renamed Rotunda Museum provided the opportunity for a scientific re-examination of the burial and grave goods in order to eluciate the life and death of this extraordinary ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Oxbow Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781782972075
SKU
V9781782972075
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Ref
99-3
Reviews for Gristhorpe Man.: A Life and Death in the Bronze Age
Overall the book presents an interesting and comprehensive account of a long forgotten assemblage, and the authors should be congratulated for bringing it to publication: Gristhorpe Man is now back on display with a new story to tell.
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