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Folded, layered textiles from a Bronze Age pit pyre excavated from Over Barrow 2, Cambridgeshire

Harris, SM; (2015) Folded, layered textiles from a Bronze Age pit pyre excavated from Over Barrow 2, Cambridgeshire. In: Grömer, K and Pritchard, F, (eds.) Aspects of the Design, Production and Use of Textiles and Clothing from the Bronze Age to the Early Modern Era. NESAT XII. The North European Symposium of Archaeological Textiles, 21st – 24th May 2014 in Hallstatt, Austria. (pp. 49-57). Archaeolingua: Budapest, Hungary.

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Abstract

The textiles from Over Barrow, Cambridgeshire, England present the opportunity to examine the burial practices at the end of the Early Bronze Age. They were excavated from a pit pyre cremation along with cremated bone, a bone needle/pin and two small sherds of a collared urn. Preserved in charred clumps of multiple layers, they have the potential to provide clues as to how the textiles were used in the cremation, for example, whether they were used as clothing, shrouds or for other purpose such as binding strips. These possibilities raise a number of questions as to the role of textiles in Bronze Age cremation burials in the early second millennium BC in Britain.

Type: Book chapter
Title: Folded, layered textiles from a Bronze Age pit pyre excavated from Over Barrow 2, Cambridgeshire
ISBN: 9639911674
ISBN-13: 9789639911673
Language: English
Additional information: These two versions are the VoR and AAM, for information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
Keywords: Archaeology, textile, Bronze Age.
UCL classification: UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of S&HS > Institute of Archaeology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1463889
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