WOOL AT DANEBURY: A SPECULATION USING EVIDENCE FROM ELSEWHERE

Autor: M. L. Ryder
Rok vydání: 1993
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Zdroj: Oxford Journal of Archaeology. 12:305-320
ISSN: 1468-0092
0262-5253
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0092.1993.tb00335.x
Popis: Summary The high proportion of sheep bones and the finding of implements used in cloth manufacture have led to suggestions that this Iron Age hill fort in Hampshire was a centre for wool cloth making. In the absence of textile remains from the site, evidence from other Iron Age sites with such remains is used to suggest that the sheep kept at Danebury are likely to have had mainly primitive hairy and primitive woolly fleeces with an annual moult and a range of colours. the absence of shears suggests a more primitive method of harvesting the wool. White wool and dyed textiles from the other sites indicates the possibility of dyeing. A reassessment of the textile implements suggests that the textile activity was no more than domestic production. the weight of the spindle whorls is discussed in relation to the sort of wool spun, but further experimentation is proposed to answer such questions as the true use of the “weaving” combs. the slingshots might have been hurled with a wool sling and not only at a human enemy or at game, but to control sheep flocks.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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