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The Garboldisham macehead: its manufacture, date, archaeological context and significance

The Garboldisham macehead: its manufacture, date, archaeological context and significance
The Garboldisham macehead: its manufacture, date, archaeological context and significance
The Garboldisham macehead is an unusual decorated macehead carved from red deer (Cervus elaphus) antler. The macehead was found in the mid 1960s deposited in a tributary of the river Little Ouse, Norfolk (Edwardson 1965), and is decorated with three spirals, making it especially significant. This paper will report on the analysis of the decoration using digital imaging, discuss a new radiocarbon date recently obtained for the artefact and discuss its significance alongside other dated antler maceheads. Finally we report on the local archaeological context of the macehead, and discuss its wider archaeological significance.
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Jones, Andrew Meirion
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Diaz-Guardamino Uribe, Marta
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Jones, Andrew Meirion, Diaz-Guardamino Uribe, Marta, Gibson, Alex and Cox, Sylvia (2017) The Garboldisham macehead: its manufacture, date, archaeological context and significance. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 83, 383-394. (doi:10.1017/ppr.2017.10).

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The Garboldisham macehead is an unusual decorated macehead carved from red deer (Cervus elaphus) antler. The macehead was found in the mid 1960s deposited in a tributary of the river Little Ouse, Norfolk (Edwardson 1965), and is decorated with three spirals, making it especially significant. This paper will report on the analysis of the decoration using digital imaging, discuss a new radiocarbon date recently obtained for the artefact and discuss its significance alongside other dated antler maceheads. Finally we report on the local archaeological context of the macehead, and discuss its wider archaeological significance.

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Accepted/In Press date: 12 August 2017
e-pub ahead of print date: 4 October 2017
Published date: December 2017

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Local EPrints ID: 415299
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/415299
PURE UUID: 5798d932-f6cb-401b-a6d7-b17610a1953e

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Date deposited: 07 Nov 2017 17:30
Last modified: 15 Mar 2024 16:44

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Author: Alex Gibson
Author: Sylvia Cox

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