Central European Urnfield Culture and Celtic La Tène
An Outline
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11002565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ernst Sprockhoff (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1956 |
| Volume | 21 |
| Pages | 257-281 |
| Publication date | 1956-07-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0079-497X • E-ISSN: 2050-2729 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0079497x0001759x |
| OpenAlex | W2155633044 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 2 |
When the Saxons from the mainland of Europe sailed up the Thames around the middle of the 5th century A.D. to lay the foundation-stone for the Anglo-Saxon Empire, they brought with them a signum sacre which has been handed down to us as the decoration of an urn from the burial-ground at Lackford in Suffolk. This consists of the figure of a horse, against which at the rear is a swastika (fig, 1, 1). Already at that time this sign had clearly a long history—a similar combination, closely related in style, is known to us from the first half of the last millennium B.C.; at that time it represented the Northern idea of the movement or journey of the ‘divine’ sun (fig. 1, 2), which idea has been brought down to us in plastic form from more than five hundred years earlier in the sun-chariot from Trundholm on Zealand
Ancient history · Archaeology · Art · Art history · Celtic languages · Chariot · Empire · Mainland · Sign (mathematics · Style (visual arts · Ancient and Medieval Archaeology Studies · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · History
| Citations per year | 0.03 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 1993 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |