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A Celtic Feast: The Iron Age Cauldrons from Chiseldon, Wiltshire (British Museum Research Publication)
A Baldwin
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Description for A Celtic Feast: The Iron Age Cauldrons from Chiseldon, Wiltshire (British Museum Research Publication)
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This volume presents for the first time the results of the excavation and scientific analysis between 2005 and 2013 of seventeen Iron Age cauldrons discovered in a large pit on farmland in the parish of Chiseldon, Wiltshire, and consequently acquired by the British Museum. The assemblage is unprecedented in many respects and is the largest known single deposit of prehistoric cauldrons from Europe. The hoard was deposited in the fourth or third centuries BC, although hoarding as a practice is generally underrepresented during this period. The inclusion in the hoard of rare decorated cauldrons also ... Read more
This volume presents for the first time the results of the excavation and scientific analysis between 2005 and 2013 of seventeen Iron Age cauldrons discovered in a large pit on farmland in the parish of Chiseldon, Wiltshire, and consequently acquired by the British Museum. The assemblage is unprecedented in many respects and is the largest known single deposit of prehistoric cauldrons from Europe. The hoard was deposited in the fourth or third centuries BC, although hoarding as a practice is generally underrepresented during this period. The inclusion in the hoard of rare decorated cauldrons also ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
British Museum Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780861592036
SKU
V9780861592036
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About A Baldwin
Alexandra Baldwin is a conservator of metal and ceramic artefacts in the Department of Conservation and Scientific Research at the British Museum. Jody Joy is a senior curator at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge. Prior to that he was Curator of European Iron Age Collections at the British Museum. He is a specialist in the art ... Read more
Reviews for A Celtic Feast: The Iron Age Cauldrons from Chiseldon, Wiltshire (British Museum Research Publication)
...sets the bar high for future research publications on hoards and adds significantly to our understanding of the Middle Iron Age.
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