`Unbaked Urns of Rudely Shape'

by Ian Kinnes (Editor)

A festschrift of essays on British and Irish pottery presented to Ian Longworth on his retirement as Keeper of the Department of Prehistoric and Romano-British Antiquities in the British Museum. Neolithic and Bronze Age pots from Beakers to Deverel-Rimbury to Colared Urns rule this book, with contributions from a host of Dr.Longworth's colleagues and friends. Contributors H.Case ( Loosening a Stereotype); T.G.Manby ( some reflections of leather, wood and basketry in EBA pottery); M.Parker Pearson (Southwestern BA pottery); J.Waddell (The Cordoned Urn Tradition); F.Healy (Pots, pits and peat; ceramics and settlementsin east Anglia); C.Burgess (Bronze Age settlements and domestic pottery in northern Britain; some suggestions).

218 pages, Paperback

Published December 1, 1995