Claire Copper (Margaret Stewart Bequest Alex Gibson (Honorary Research Associate Deborah Hallam (University of Bradford
Funerary and related cups of the British Bronze Age presents the first national corpus and study of these often highly decorated items. Cups are the least studied of all Bronze Age funerary ceramics and their interpretations are still based on antiquarian speculation. They are clearly 'Urnes of no small Variety' and previous attempts at classification have largely failed due to this variation. Their potential uses, technologies and associations are examined and many myths, such as their association with children and their role in accompanying other ceramics such as Collared Urns and Food...
Funerary and related cups of the British Bronze Age presents the first national corpus and study of these often highly decorated items. Cups are the l...