Early Anglo-Saxon Buckets - A Corpus of Copper Alloy and Iron-Bound, Stave-Built Vessels

Klappentext Anglo-Saxon buckets are an enigmatic and relatively rare type of object found 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. Jean Mary Cook began compiling a corpus of Anglo-Saxon buckets in the 1950s. 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. The detailed information in the illustrated monograph is accompanied by a website that enables the reader to search Jean Cook's database for certain aspects of bucket construction and design.

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• Authors: J. M. Cook, Jean Mary Cook
• Assisted by: Birte Brugmann (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford uni commitee archaeolog
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.11.2004
• EAN: 9780947816643
• ISBN: 978-0-947816-64-3
• No. of pages: 128
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History