Brooches in Late Iron Age and Roman Britain

The late D. F. Mackreth published extensively, contributing numerous chapters to books and authoring archaeological reports. He was also the author of a number of books, including Prehistoric Burial Mounds in Orton Meadows, Peterborough (2021), Monument 97; Orton Longueville, Cambridgeshire: A late Pre-Roman Iron Age and Early Roman Farmstead (2001); Orton Hall Farm: A Roman and Early Saxon Farmstead (1996); Peterborough: History and Guide (1994); and co-author with M. D. & J. R. Perrin of Roman Pottery from the Nene Valley: A Guide (1980).

Chapter 1. Introduction

Part 1. The Study

Part 2. Dating

Part 3. Typologies and Classification

Part 4. Selection and Bias

Part 5. Materials and Manufacture

Part 6. The Illustrations

Chapter 2. Late La Tène, Britain and the Continent

Part 1. The Stead, Birdlip, Nauheim and Drahtfibel Group, etc.

Part 2. The Rosette and Langton Down Group

Part 3. The Colchester

Part 4. The Aesica

Part 5. The South Western La Tène Series

Part 6. The Military La Tène II

Chapter 3. The Colchester Derivative

Part 1. The Harlow, Spring System

Part 2. The Rearhook

Part 3. The Polden Hill

Part 4. The Hinged Pin

Part 5. Polden Hill/Hinged Pin

Chapter 4. The Headstud and others

Part 1. Alternative Headstuds

Part 2. The Headstud

Part 3. The Wroxeter

Part 4. Colchester Derivatives, with Trumpet-style Knops

Chapter 5. The Trumpet and its Varieties

Part 1. Mainstream Trumpets

Part 2. Double-lugged

Part 3. The Knop Replaced by Flat Plates

Part 4. Hinged

Chapter 6. Continent Imports and Their Influence

Part 1. Alésia-Aucissa Series

Part 2. The Hod Hill

Part 3. The Durotrigan

Part 4. The Augenfibel and Relatives

Part 5. The Pannonian, Norican etc

Chapter 7. The Plate and Related, and Dragonesques

Introduction

Part 1. British

Part 2. Continental

Part 3. Objects and Animals

Part 4. Dragonesque

Chapter 8. The Knee, Almgren 101 and Interlopers

Part 1. The Knee

Part 2. Almgren 101

Part 3. Interlopers from Free Germany etc

Chapter 9. The Crossbow Sequence

Part 1. The Sprung-pin or Proto Crossbow Brooches

Part 2. The Crossbow and its Antecedents

Chapter 10. Penannulars

Part 1. Coiled

Part 2. Folded Over

Part 3. Knobbed

Part 4. Late-zoömorphic

Part 5. Others

Chapter 11. Usage, Tribes, Fashions and the Demise of the Bow Brooch

Part 1. Who Wore Brooches, Why and How

Part 2. The Problem of Military Brooches

Part 3. Religion

Part 4. Marketing and Money

Appendices

1. The Dating of the King Harry Lane Cemetery

2. The Dating of Applied White Metal Trim

3. South Cadbury the South West Gate