The Marlborough Bucket: A new analysis of imagery within the artistic context of Late Iron Age Southern Britain

Reb Ellis-Haken

The Marlborough Bucket: A new analysis of imagery within the artistic context of Late Iron Age Southern Britain

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Abstract

The Marlborough Bucket is the most figuratively decorated artefact from late Iron Age Britain, but it has received little attention. After taking brand new imagery of the vessel, which had originally been planned as part of a doctoral thesis studying the use of animals in La Tène period art in England and Wales (c. 400 BC–AD 100), the humans and horses portrayed on the Bucket have now been newly analysed within the context of art and coinage from southern Britain and the Near Continent. This paper argues that the Marlborough Bucket is a symbol of unity in the face of conflict, probably in a period after the Cimbric and leading up to the Gallic Wars, whilst stressing the importance of chronological, regional, and artefactual contexts when assessing genuinely figurative forms in La Tène art.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	143-166
Journal	Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine
Volume	116
Publication status	Published - Sept 2023

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