BRONZE AGE METAL and AMBER in the NETHERLANDS (PART II: L) CAT ALOGUE of FLAT AXES, FLANGED AXES and STOPRIDGE AXES
BRONZE AGE METAL AND AMBER IN THE NETHERLANDS (PART II: l) CAT ALOGUE OF FLAT AXES, FLANGED AXES AND STOPRIDGE AXES II BUTLER Vakgroep Archeologie, Groningen, Nether/ands ABSTRACT: Catalogue of the flat axes, flanged axes, and stopridge axes ofthe Early and Middle Bronze Age fo und in the Netherlands, ordered by types; with consideration of their chronology, distribution, and origins. KEYWORDS: Netherlands, Bronze Age (Early and Middle); flat axes, flanged axes, stopridge axes, distributions. 1. INTRODUCTION designation s wherever and whenever practicable. At present, the most complete and systematic typology for In Part I of this study (Pa[aeohistoria 32, 1990: pp. 47- bronze axes of this and adjacent regions is that pro 1 10) we presented a catalogue of the richer grave finds posed and employed by Kibbert, 1980 (for his schema and the hoards of the Early and Middle Bronze Age in tic overview see his p. 57: Ta belle 5, for flat axes, and the Netherlands. Part II continues the catalogue with p. 93: Tabelle6,here reproduced as figure l ,forflanged the presentation ofthe single finds ofEarly and Middle axes) and 1984 (for the later axe types). Inevitably , his Bronze Age axes (flat axes, flanged axes, stopridge type divisions serve as the basis for those used here, and axes). The arrangement is according to types; and especiaIly for those axe types which are relatively inc1udes discussion of the chronology, distribution common- in weslern Germany and scarce in the (with maps for the Netherlands) and origin of the types. Netherlands. In some cases, differences ofterminology Palstaves will be similarly presented in Part II:2.
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