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Early Anglo-Saxon Buckets - 9780947816643

Un libro in lingua di Jean Cook Birte Brugmann Evison Vera I. edito da Oxford Univ School of Archaeology, 2005

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Anglo-Saxon buckets are an enigmatic and relatively rare type of object in 5th- to 7th-century Anglo-Saxon graves. They are constructed of wooden staves and copper-alloy or iron bindings, some of them no more than mug-sized, others 20 cm in diameter or more. Elaborate decorative elements on some buckets and many of the grave contexts suggest that these buckets were status goods rather than every-day household equipment.
In the 1950s, Jean Mary Cook began compiling a corpus of these buckets. Her particular interest was in the technical details of their manufacture and in their use. She continued to collect information on Anglo-Saxon buckets throughout her varied career until shortly before her death. The posthumously published corpus is comprised of 339 entries on complete buckets, bucket mounts and objects erroneously published as buckets, many of them based on first-hand examination, with information on their archaeological context.

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