The Excavations at Wijnaldum: Volume 2: Handmade and Wheel-Thrown Pottery of the first Millennium AD

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Annet Nieuwhof
Barkhuis, 16 jan 2021 - 276 pagina's
Wijnaldum is nowadays an unassuming rural village in the north of the province of Friesland, no more than a small dot on the map of the Netherlands. But during the Early Middle Ages, this probably was a lively political center, a kingdom, with intensive contacts with other kingdoms along the North Sea coasts, and with the Frankish realm to the south. The search for the king that resided at Wijnaldum was the major goal of the excavations that were carried out at the terp Wijnaldum-Tjitsma between 1991 and 1993. These excavations yielded a wealth of information, although tangible remains of the king or a royal residence were not found. What was found was a lot of pottery. The ceramic assemblage from the first Millennium consists of local handmade and imported wheel-thrown pottery, revealing contacts with the wider world. The first results and an overview of the habitation phases were published in 1999, in Volume 1 of The Excavations at Wijnaldum. The ceramic assemblage, and its consequences for the habitation history of Wijnaldum, are the main subjects of this second volume.
 

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1 Tracing farmers while digging for kingsThe history and legacy of the excavationsat Wijnaldum in Frisia 19911993
1
2 Introduction to the pottery research of WijnaldumTjitsma
41
3 Handmade pottery of the Roman Period
47
4 Handmade pottery of the Migration Period andthe Merovingian Period
69
5 Wheelthrown pottery of the Merovingianand Carolingian periods at Wijnaldum
99
6 Merovingian pottery at Wijnaldum in context
147
7 Handmade pottery of the Merovingian andCarolingian periods at Wijnaldum
159
8 WijnaldumTjitsma revisited Testing thepotential value of fieldsurveying terp sites
193
9 Digging for kings finding pottery Wijnaldum inthe first millennium
241
List of Contributors
263
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