Dress pins, bosses and pegged playing pieces: changing identities of some Early Medieval glass artefacts

Hall, Mark A.; Graham-Campbell, James; Petts, David

Abstract

This paper discusses, without fixing, the meaning and identity of two glass bosses from Northern British archaeological contexts of the late first millennium AD, both power-centres in a socio-cultural network encompassing Pictland and Northumbria. The emphasis is on fluidity and hybridity of meaning and interpretation, by drawing out their biographical implications as a means of elucidating the inter-linked social and functional complexity of the object–human interaction, about which these artefacts are strikingly informative.

Citation

Hall, M. A., Graham-Campbell, J., & Petts, D. (online). Dress pins, bosses and pegged playing pieces: changing identities of some Early Medieval glass artefacts. Archaeological Journal, https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2024.2412406

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Jun 1, 2024
• Online Publication Date: Nov 21, 2024
• Deposit Date: Nov 22, 2024
• Publicly Available Date: Nov 22, 2024
• Journal: Archaeological Journal
• Print ISSN: 0066-5983
• Electronic ISSN: 2373-2288
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis Group
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00665983.2024.2412406
• Public URL: https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/3104238