Research Catalog

Title

The Ringlemere cup : precious cups and the beginning of the Channel Bronze Age / editors, Stuart Needham, Keith Parfitt and Gillian Varndell ; contributors, Aaron Birchenough [and others] ; illustrations by Barry Corke and Stephen Crummy.

Publication

London : British Museum, ©2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Needham, Stuart.
• Parfitt, Keith.
• Varndell, Gillian.
• Birchenough, Aaron.
• Corke, Barry.
• Crummy, Stephen.

Description

x, 116 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 30 cm.

Summary

In 2003, the British Museum acquired the Ringlemere gold cup, a rare example from the Early Bronze Age. This volume talks about the Ringlemere cup and its immediate site context. It also presents an assessment of the dating and social significance through a reappraisal of the fifteen comparable cups from Britain, Brittany, Germany and Switzerland.

Series Statement

British Museum research publication, 0142-4815 ; no. 163

Uniform Title

Research publication (British Museum) ; no. 163.

Subjects

• Europe > Antiquities
• Great Britain > Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology) > England > Kent
• Drinking vessels
• Goldwork, Ancient

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 105-109).

Language (note)

• Summaries in French and German.

Contents

Background and survey work / Keith Parfitt -- Geophysical surveys, 2002-2003 / Aaron Birchenough -- Excavations, 2002-2005 / Keith Parfitt -- From henge to barrow : Ringlemere M1 and comparabale monuments ; The gold cup / Stuart Needham -- Surface patination ; Metal composition ; Technology of production / Susan La Niece -- Other prehistoric material. Amber artefacts / Stuart Needham -- Prehistoric pottery. Grooved ware / Gill Varndell ; Beaker pottery / Stuart Needham -- Flintwork / Chris Butler -- Wood remains. Identification of wood and charcoal remains with the central features and the cup / Caroline Cartwright ; Radiocarbon dates from the central structures / Keith Parfitt and Stuart Needham -- Ringlemere and ritual and burial landscapes of Kent / Keith Parfitt -- Precious cups of the early Bronze Age ; Precious cups : concept, context and custodianship ; Networks of contact and meaning : the beginning of the Channel Bronze Age / Stuart Needham -- Catalogue of early Bronze Age precious cups in North-West Europe / Stuart Needham and Gill Varndell. The Ringlemere cup ; The Rillaton cup ; The Fritzdorf cup ; The Gölenkamp cup ; The Eschenz cup ; The Ploumilliau cup ; The unprovenanced, possibly German cup ; The Brun Bras, Saint-Adrien cup ; The Saint-Fiacre cup ; The Clandon cup ; The Hove cup ; The?Wiltshire cup(s) ; The Broad Down, Farway cup(s) ; The Stoborough cup.

ISBN

• 9780861591633
• 0861591631

LCCN

2007270644

OCLC

• ocm76901188
• 76901188
• SCSB-1422373

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library