The Realization That There Were Socketed Axes in the Netherlands
BRONZE AGE METAL AND AMBER IN THE NETHERLANDS (IV) HOARDS AND RICH GRAVES IN THE LATE BRONZE AGE, PART A J.J. BUTLER & HANNIE STEEGSTRA University of Groningen, Groningen Institute of Archeology, Groningen, the Netherlands ABSTRACT: This, Part IV: A of the publication of Bronze Age metal and amber finds in the Netherlands, is the second part of a catalogue and evaluation of the bronze hoards and rich graves in the Netherlands. Attention is given to questions of importation and regional production of bracelets in the Late Bronze Age. KEYWORDS: the Netherlands, Late Bronze Age, bracelets ([pen]annular, kidney-shaped, multi-ribbed, omega, palette and otherwise), ornaments, socketed axes, hoards, graves. 1. INTRODUCTION the realization that there were socketed axes in the Netherlands with features of form and ornament, such In Part I of this series, the first writer (Butler, 1990: as the sawtooth ornament, that cannot be matched in 47–110) described 24 hoards and grave finds from the neighbouring areas, and therefore must have been lo- Early and Middle Bronze Age in the Netherlands. In cally produced in the northwest of the Netherlands. the present part (IV:A) we discuss Netherlands ho- Thus one could ask whether there was also evidence ards and richer grave finds especially with bracelets. for the parallel local production of articles of, for In Part IV:B (forthcoming) we will discuss tools and example, female attire. weapons of the Late Bronze Age (see fig. 1 for abso- There was indeed such evidence: the several finds lute chronology). of bronze multi-ribbed penannular bracelets with Bronze Age bracelets are scarce in the Netherlands: everted palettes.
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