Castaways New Insights from the Metal Detected Brooches of Early Medieval Frisia Marcus A Roxburgh Title page and chapter illustrations are adaptations of images from the Julius work calendar now in the British Library, drawn by Marcus A Roxburgh. All illustrations of brooches in this thesis are drawn by Marcus A Roxburgh.
[email protected] II Castaways New Insights from the Metal Detected Brooches of Early Medieval Frisia Author: Marcus A. Roxburgh Course: Master Research and Thesis Course code: ARCH 1044WY Student nr: S1182625 Supervisors: dr. H Huisman, prof.dr. A.L van Gijn Specialisations: Material Culture Studies, Field Archaeology University of Leiden, Faculty of Archaeology Leiden, 15th June 2013 III IV TABLE OF CONTENTS Contents Page LIST OF FIGURES X LIST OF TABLES XIII ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS XIV 1 INTRODUCTION 1 1.1 History of research 3 1.1.1 The development of early medieval archaeology 3 1.1.2 The archaeology of early medieval Frisia 4 1.1.3 The study of brooches 7 1.1.4 Metal detecting and 'Productive Sites' 8 1.1.5 The development of compositional analysis and hhXRF 10 1.2 Theoretical orientation 13 1.2.1 Philosophy 13 1.2.2 Memory and Learning 14 1.2.3 Cross Craft Interaction 17 1.2.4 Reuse and Recycling 19 1.3 Problem orientation and research questions 21 2 METHODOLOGY 27 2.1 hhXRF 28 2.1.1 The principles of hhXRF 28 2.1.2 The debate concerning archaeological application 28 2.1.3 The methodology for brooches 30 2.2 Morphological analysis 32 V 2.2.1 The principles of morphological analysis 32 2.2.2 The morphological