Iron Age Flashcards
1
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Iron Age date
A
500 BC - 400 AD
2
Q
Name of people
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Celtic people
3
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Designs
A
La Tène style
4
Q
Iron Age Artefacts
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- Turoe Stone
- Castle strange stone
- Corleck head
- Tandragee idol
- Broighter collar
- Loughnashade trumpet
- Petrie crown
5
Q
The Celts
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- 500 BC - celts from mainland Europe started settling in Ireland
- Introduced mining + working iron
- Celtic language
- Romans happy to trade, never invaded - celtic culture survived in Ireland
6
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La Tène style
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- Developed by Celts in Switzerland, France, Germany ~500 BC
- Influences of Greek + Etruscan plant motifs
- Style named after lakeside site at La Tène, Switzerland where Celtic artefacts were found
7
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La Tène motifs
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Spiral Leaf Shape Pelta Scroll Trumpet shape Triskele Stylized bird's head
8
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Turoe Stone - Form
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- Rounded Connemara granite boulder
- 1.68m in height
- Deposited by a glacier
- Vertical sides + spherical top
9
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Turoe Stone - Function
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- Pagan rituals?
- Quality of decoration suggests importance
10
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Turoe Stone - Decoration
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- Stepped pattern around base
- Curvilinear La Tène decorations
- Four separate panels
- Motifs inc: leaf shapes, triskeles, spirals, circles, trumpet ends
11
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Turoe Stone - Stone Carving Techniques
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- Partly smoothed surface w/ iron chisels (‘dressing the stone’)
- Bg around motifs carved away - contrasting positive + negative shapes
- Stepped pattern around base has been incised
12
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Turoe Stone example
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Co. Galway
13
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Loughnashade Trumpet example
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Co. Armagh
found in a bog where ancient lake of Loughnashade had been found
14
Q
Loughnashade Trumpet - Form
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-Consists of mouthpiece, decorative disk around bell rim, two curved tubes joined by a ring
15
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Loughnashade Trumpet - Function
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- Offering to pagan gods?
- Used during pagan rituals?
- War trumpet?
