Hoards as collections: re-examining the Snettisham Iron Age hoards from the perspective of collecting practice

Joy, Jody

doi:10.1080/00438243.2016.1152197

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“…Whatever their purpose, the selection of objects for inclusion in the hoards was deliberate and the performance of their deposition in the pit likely carried significance and meaning to those present. As discussed in more detail elsewhere (Joy ), the collection and selection of artefacts for inclusion in prehistoric hoards was an important process which is often overlooked by archaeologists.…”

Section: Of Its Generation? the Context Of Depositionmentioning

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A Power to Intrigue? Exploring the ‘Timeless’ Qualities of the So‐called ‘Grotesque’ Iron Age Torc From Snettisham, Norfolk

Joy

2019

Oxford J Archaeology

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Summary Sometimes we come across objects that truly intrigue us. Not necessarily because they are great examples of art, or because they are made of precious materials, but because there is some other quality which captures our attention. One of these can be age. Just as age adds character to people’s faces, the patina of an object or visible signs of damage and use instils an object with a certain ‘charisma’ or ‘aura’. This paper examines in detail the so‐called grotesque torc, a neck‐ring dating to the Iron Age which has been extensively repaired. The repairs are crude and obvious, which gives the object its distinctive appearance. It is argued that these signs of age, inscribed onto the artefact through its life, imbued the torc with a timeless ‘anachronic’ quality: its visible age manifests a certain charisma or aura, helping facilitate a plural relationship with time.

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A Power to Intrigue? Exploring the ‘Timeless’ Qualities of the So‐called ‘Grotesque’ Iron Age Torc From Snettisham, Norfolk

Joy

2019

Oxford J Archaeology

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“…The process of hoarding these objects also has implications for the role the coins played in Iron Age lives since hoarding has been argued to result in the bringing together of people (Garrow & Gosden 2012,191). The social importance of the collection or accumulation of the group of objects must therefore be considered, not just the act of deposition itself (Joy 2016). Accumulating all coins of same issue region and nearly all attributed to the same 'ruler' or person suggests a common understanding surrounding these objects; they may now be considered as abductive icons and powerful actors in the extension and negotiation of social bonds.…”

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Socio-semiotics and the symbiosis of humans, horses, and objects in later Iron Age Britain

Pudney

2018

Archaeological Journal

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Using an approach derived from material culture studies and semiotics, this paper addresses possible relationships between humans and horses in the British Iron Age. Through a study of the dominance of horse imagery found on Iron Age British coinage, specifically the Western coinage traditionally attributed to the 'Dobunni', the author explores how it may reflect possible relationships between humans and horses and their personhood therein. Drawing on wider faunal and metalwork evidence it is argued that these coins could be interpreted as a manifestation of the complex perspectives surrounding a symbiotic relationship between humans and horses.

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“…As such, their diversity in form and distribution reflect the fluidity of social and political changes, as well as material traditions in the later British Iron Age. For example, coins were likely understood as part of existing (albeit shifting) concepts of late Iron Age, high-value metalwork exchange and deposition (Joy 2016). While this author does not refute Iron Age coins as powerful objects, exchanged between people for complex social and political reasons (Leins 2012), the discussion presented here builds upon the links made between coin imagery and cosmological beliefs in an attempt to understand better the types of power that may have been associated with them.…”

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Coins and Cosmologies in Iron Age Western Britain

Pudney¹

2018

CAJ

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This paper offers a material culture-based approach to British Western Iron Age coins (i.e. those often attributed to the Dobunni). Through analysis of the materiality and imagery of these objects, the author explores the embodiment of later Iron Age cosmologies. In doing so, the cycles of day and night and of life and death are discussed. The ways in which these cosmologies could have been transposed onto the landscape through coin production and depositional contexts helps to demonstrate how Iron Age societies in Western Britain may have understood their world and confirmed their space within it.

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Hoards as collections: re-examining the Snettisham Iron Age hoards from the perspective of collecting practice

Cited by 17 publications

References 35 publications

A Power to Intrigue? Exploring the ‘Timeless’ Qualities of the So‐called ‘Grotesque’ Iron Age Torc From Snettisham, Norfolk

A Power to Intrigue? Exploring the ‘Timeless’ Qualities of the So‐called ‘Grotesque’ Iron Age Torc From Snettisham, Norfolk

Socio-semiotics and the symbiosis of humans, horses, and objects in later Iron Age Britain

Coins and Cosmologies in Iron Age Western Britain

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