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- Title
Keramikrige gruber og velbevarede agre: Fra tidlig førromersk jernalder ved Boes Skov, Østjylland.
- Authors
Nielsen, Emma K.; Roborg, Astrid S.; Stephansen, Clara F.; Alemanno, Stephanie S.; Hansen, Jakob; Aagaard, Julie B.; Vinter, Michael; Løvschal, Mette
- Abstract
Ceramic-filled pits are some of the most frequently found feature types on Danish Early Iron Age archaeological excavations. Still they are also among the most poorly understood. Discussions often end up in attempts to classify them as either 'rubbish' or 'ritual depositions' while none of these designations seem fully satisfactory. This paper addresses this phenomenon of depositing massive quantities of intact and fragmented pottery alongside other production debris in large pits on Early Iron Age settlements, burial sites and off-sites. We take a starting point in a recently conducted excavation, Boes Skov I in East Jutland, where detailed excavations of a series ceramic-filled pits found within a Celtic fields system were followed up by scientific analyses and ceramic refitting. We show that, amongst their pronounced everyday character, the pits also reflect practices of repetition, sorting, fragmentation and partiality, as well as a deliberate renounce of an essential resource for manuring. We use the site to discuss (rather than provide solid answers to) the equivocal and multifaceted aspects of ceramic-filled pits as, displaying elements from both a domestic sphere and off-site depositional practices of 'everyday things'.
- Subjects
JUTLAND (Denmark); ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations; IRON Age; WASTE management; POTTERY; STONE implements; POTSHERDS; GRAVETTIAN culture
- Publication
Gefjon, 2018, p82
- ISSN
2446-0257
- Publication type
Article