Theme:
Digital archaeology, science and multidisciplinarity: new methods, new challenges
Session format:
Regular session
Title:
Gold in Britain's auriferous regions, 2450-800 BC
Content:
This session showcases the work of an AHRC-funded international and interdisciplinary Research Network, established in 2018 and co-ordinated by Drs Alison Sheridan (National Museums Scotland) and Jana Horak (Amgueddfa Cymru-National Mmuseum Wales). The Research Network is tasked with creating a Research Framework and Strategy on the exploitation and use of gold during the Chalcolithic and Bronze Age in Britain's gold-bearing regions (Scotland, Wales and north-west and south-west England), set within its broader international context. Geological, archaeometallurgical, archaeological and gold-working perspectives are offered. The complications of sourcing gold artefacts will be reviewed, and current initiatives and outstanding research questions will be highlighted. The distribution of gold sources in Britain's auriferous regions will be shown and discussed in the light of other sources that may have been used to make the gold artefacts found in our study area. The latest, most up to date information on gold artefacts and gold use in Britain, 2450-800 BC will be presented and a set of outstanding research questions, plus a strategy for addressing them, will be set out.
Keywords:
Gold, Chalcolithic, Bronze Age, Britain, auriferous
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no
Session associated with CAA:
no
Session associated with DGUF:
no
Session associated with other:
Main organiser:
Alison Sheridan (United Kingdom) 1
Co-organisers:
Barbara Armbruster (France) 2
Affiliations:
1. National Museums Scotland
2. CNRS/University of Toulouse
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