Dress pins, bosses and pegged playing pieces: changing identities of some Early Medieval glass artefacts

2024/07/02 by Mark A. Hall, James Graham-Campbell, David Petts · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Earth and Planetary Sciences · #Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History #Archaeology and ancient environmental studies #Historical, Religious, and Philosophical Studies

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/00665983.2024.2412406

openalex publication_date 2024/07/02 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/02

Abstract

This paper discusses, without fixing, the meaning and identity of two glass bosses from Northern British archaeological contexts of the late first millennium AD, both power-centres in a socio-cultural network encompassing Pictland and Northumbria. The emphasis is on fluidity and hybridity of meaning and interpretation, by drawing out their biographical implications as a means of elucidating the inter-linked social and functional complexity of the object–human interaction, about which these artefacts are strikingly informative.

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