Rebuilding the Britons: The Postcolonial Archaeology of Culture and Identity in the Late Antique Bristol Channel RegionThis study seeks to examine how late antique culture in the Bristol Channel region changed so dramatically in the two centuries following the collapse of Roman authority. It draws on post-colonial theory to examine local social and cultural responses, and substitutes the idea of cultural hybridisation for the received notion of monolithic cultural identities such as British, Celtic or Anglo-Saxon. Discussion centres on architecture (with the sites of Congresbury and Cadbury Castles and Dinas Powys reappraised), ceramics, and personal artefacts such as brooches. |
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Foundations | 1 |
Hybridity Social Memory and Archaeology | 9 |
Hybrid Architecture | 34 |
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Alcock ambivalent negotiation amphorae Anglo-Saxon antique Bristol Channel archaeology architectural traditions argued bank bead Bhabha bone/antler Bristol Channel region Britons brooch building Cadbury Castle Cadbury Congresbury Campbell Celtic Chapter colonial combs concept construction contemporary copper alloy deposition Dinas Powys discourse discussed Dommelen elite evidence examples excavations fifth forms Fulford Gaulish groups Henley Wood hillforts hybrid hybridisation ibid identities Illus Illustration imported ceramics indicate indigenous Iron Age knowledge late antique Bristol late antique British late antique period manufacture material culture Mediterranean metal-working motif ornament past pendants perhaps personal artefact personal items post-colonial post-holes post-Roman pottery Powys and Cadbury pre-Roman Rahtz Rampart rectilinear residents resistance Roman Britain Romano-British architectural Romano-British ceramics Romano-British culture roundhouse samian samian ware sherds shield boss similar sixth century social contexts social frameworks social memory Somerset spindle whorls stone Structure L1 study sites suggests symbolic temple thesis three sites timber vessels votive deposition wares