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BEAKER POTTERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND (2 VOLUMES)

Written by D.L. Clarke
Published by Cambridge University Press in 1970
ISBN: 0521072492

BEAKER POTTERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND (2 VOLUMES)
Written by D.L. Clarke.
Stock no. 1827744
1st. 1970. Hardback. Large format. Slightly better than very good condition in a slightly better than very good dustwrapper.

Gulbenkian Archaeological Series. Volume 1 outlines the basis of classification and discusses the analysis of the material. Volume 2 contains line drawings of all known surviving complete examples of British Beaker pottery drawn at one-third size, detailed inventories of all known examples giving their finding-place, description, dimension and present whereabouts. Large format. Brown cloth boards, Gilt title on black title label to spine. B/w illustrations. Top edges brown. A heavy set. ISBN: 0521072492. A lovely set. Price-cut dustwrappers are a little grubby to rear panels.

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Front cover

Cover of BEAKER POTTERY OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND (2 VOLUMES) by D.L. Clarke

Contents

  • VOLUME 1
  • List of text figures and tables in Volume I
  • List of Plates
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Abbreviations
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Beaker decoration
  • 3 Matrix analysis and beaker classification
  • 4 A system for British beaker classification
  • 5 An outline of European beaker origins
  • 6 The All-Over-Cord beaker group (AOC)
  • 7 The European Bell beaker group (E)
  • 8 The Wessex / Middle Rhine beaker group (W/MR)
  • 9 The Northern British / Middle Rhine beaker group (N/MR)
  • 10 The Northern British / North Rhine beaker group (N/MR)
  • 11 The Barbed-Wire beaker group (BW)
  • 12 The East Anglian beaker group (E.Ang)
  • 13 The Primary Northern British / Dutch beaker group (N I/D)
  • 14 The Developed Northern British beaker group (N2)
  • 15 The Late Northern British beaker group (N3)
  • 16 The Final Northern British beaker group (N4)
  • 17 The Primary Southern British beaker group (S1)
  • 18 The Developed Southern British beaker group (S2)
  • 19 The Late Southern British beaker group (S3)
  • 20 The Final Southern British beaker group (S4)
  • 21 The Handled Southern British beaker series (SH)
  • 22 Overall Trends
  • 23 Associations
  • 24 The British setting and relative chronology
  • 25 Summary and Conclusions
  • VOLUME 2
  • Corpus illustrations, figs 1-1,087
  • Concordance list, relating to beaker corpus numbers to the figure numbers of the illustrations
  • Appendices
  • Notes to chapters
  • References