The Excavations at Wijnaldum: Volume 2: Handmade and Wheel-Thrown Pottery of the first Millennium ADAnnet 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. |
Inhoudsopgave
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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 |
Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen
5th century Ages amount Anglo-Saxon archaeological assemblage belong Besteman bowls brooch Carolingian period century Chapter Chronology clear coastal collected colour comparable complete consists dating decorated diameter distribution Dongjum Drawings Drenthe earlier early early-medieval elevation excavation fabric field surveys Figure finds fragments Friesland Frisian Gerrets globular pots grit Groningen grooves habitation half handmade pottery hardness Heidinga imported Kaspers Koning Langen late later layers least less material medieval Merovingian Merovingian period Middle Migration neck Netherlands Nicolay Nieuwhof northern Oostergo phase possible pottery present probably produced region represented rim fragments Roman period rounded Scale seems settlement shape shell-tempered sherds shoulder shows similar started subtype surface survey Taayke Table temper terp tion variant volume wall ware weight Westergo wheel-thrown pottery wierden Wijnaldum