LECTURE: Keeping Up Appearances
2:30 pm, Saturday, 24 October, 2009

'Prehistoric Jewellery in Britain and Beyond' by Ben Roberts.

About 4,500 years ago some inhabitants of Britain suddenly started wearing and being buried with jewellery. Subsequent centuries saw objects being fashioned out of amber, jet, gold, copper, bone and faience in a bewildering variety of forms. These explosions of different displays reflected many of the transformations in societies over 1500 years. This talk will look at what jewellery prehistoric people wore and explore what this tells us about these prehistoric Bronze Age communities.


Ben Roberts is Curator of the European Bronze Age collections at the British Museum. His research interests include the roles of jewellery in prehistoric societies, the appearance and early development of metal in Europe and the Middle East and the production, circulation and deposition of metal objects in prehistoric Europe. He studied at Sheffield and Cambridge and has worked on archaeological field projects throughout Britain, Europe and Central America.

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Cost:   £4 (£3 for WANHS Members)

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