Objects of the Past in the Past: Investigating the Significance of Earlier Artefacts in Later Contexts

How Did Past Communities View, Understand And Communicate Their Pasts? And How Can We, As Archaeologists, Understand This? In Recent Years These Questions Have Been Approached Through Studies Of The Extended Occupation And Use Of Landscapes, Monuments And Artefacts To Explore Concepts Of Time And Memory. But What Of Objects That Were Already Old In The Past? Interpretations For These Items Have Ranged From The Discard Of Scrap To Objects Of Veneration. Evidence From A Range Of Periods Would Suggest Objects Of The Past Were An Important Part Of Many Later Societies That Encountered Them, Either As Heirlooms With Remembered Histories Or Rediscovered Curiosities From A More Distant Past.0for The First Time, This Volume Brings Together A Range Of Case Studies In Which Objects Of The Past Were Encountered And Reappropriated. It Follows A Conference Session At The Theoretical Archaeological Group In Cardiff 2017, In Which Historians, Archaeologists, Heritage Professionals And Commercial Archaeologists Gathered To Discuss This Topic On A Broad (pre)historical Scale, Highlighting Similarities And Contrast In Depositional Practices And Reactions To Relics Of The Past In Different Periods. Through Case Studies Spanning The Bronze Age Through To The 18th Century Ad, This Volume Presents New Research Demonstrating That The Reappropriation Of These Already Old Objects Was Not Anomalous, But Instead Represents A Practice That Recurs Throughout (pre)history. Machine Generated Contents Note: Ch. 1 Objects Of The Past In The Past / Rachel E. Wilkinson -- Ch. 2 Doubtful Associations? Assessing Bronze Age `multi-period' Hoards From Northern England, Scotland And Wales / Matthew G. Knight -- Ch. 3 Connecting With The Past: Earliest Iron Age Multi-period Hoards In Wessex / Dot Boughton -- Ch. 4 The Devil Or The Divine? Supernatural Objects And Multi-period Hoards In Later Prehistory / Alex Davies -- Ch. 5 Iron Age Antiques: Assessing The Functions Of Old Objects In Britain From 400 Bc To Ad 100 / Helen Chittock -- Ch. 6 The Antique Antique? / Mark Lewis -- Ch. 7 Rethinking Heirlooms In Early Medieval Graves / Howard Williams -- Ch. 8 Medieval Engagements With The Material Past: Some Evidence From European Coin Hoards, Ad C. 1000-1500 / Murray Andrews -- Ch. 9 Deep Time In The Ruins Of A Tudor Palace? Fossils From The Palace Of Placentia, Greenwich / Peter J. Leeming. Edited By Matthew G. Knight, Dot Boughton And Rachel E. Wilkinson. This Publication Follows A Conference Session At The Theoretical Archaeological Group In Cardiff 2017. Includes Bibliographical References.