Enclosing the Past - Inside and Outside in Prehistory (Volume 15) - Anthony Harding

Enclosing the Past - Inside and Outside in Prehistory (Volume 15) - Anthony Harding

Defining Community: Iron, Boundaries and Transformation in Later Prehistoric Britain

Enclosing the Past - Inside and Outside in Prehistory (Volume 15) - Anthony Harding

Richard Hingley

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This paper explores enclosed settlements during the later prehistoric period in Britain, with a particular emphasis on the Middle Iron Age, addressing the nature of the acts by which ironwork hoards were incorporated within boundary earthworks on a number of sites. It is argued that these acts may have been related to the definition (or re-definition) of a physical boundary, a barrier that was imbued with a sense of history or a time depth. By constructing physical boundaries, people were seeking to define the character of their communities.

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Hingley, Richard . Defining Community: Iron, Boundaries and Transformation in Later Prehistoric Britain. Enclosing the Past - Inside and Outside in Prehistory (Volume 15). Equinox eBooks Publishing, United Kingdom. p. 116-125 Jan 2007. ISBN 9780906090534. https://www.equinoxpub.com/home/view-chapter/?id=24787. Date accessed: 29 Mar 2024 doi: 10.1558/equinox.24787. Jan 2007

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