Monday 14th May:
Please complete the follow HL past exam paper question for Tuesday 15th May. I also need to take up any more remaining essays on Jack B. Yeats.
2017) Q. 2: Bronze Age
Q.2. Name, describe and discuss the
two artefacts illustrated on the accompanying sheet. In your answer
refer to form, function, materials and the techniques used in their production and decoration. and Briefly
describe and discuss the periods in which these artefacts were made.
NOTES ON THE DRESS FASTENER (AKA FIBULA)
The
gold dress fastener found in Clones, Co. Monaghan, dates from the 8th
century B.C. and is decorated with many small circular shapes engraved into
it. It is pure gold and weighs over 1000 grammes it probably was used for
ceremonial occasions.It
can be seen in the National Museum
of Ireland and belongs to
the Dowris phase of the Late Bronze Age at circa 700 B. C. It has a
length of 21.5 centimetres.It
functioned as a double button meant to slip through two holes in a garment such
as a cloak. The largeness and elaborate decoration on the surface
probably meant it was only worn infrequently.The
connecting bow tapers from the centre toward each end, and the ends join the
bell-shaped terminals asymmetrically. Three small hatched triangles lie
along the crest of the bow. Three bands of parallel lines, separated by
bands with diagonal hatching, run around the bases of the bow. A hatched
chevron design runs around the margins of this band of decoration, both above
and below.The
exterior surfaces of the terminals are magnificently decorated with small pits
surrounded by concentric engraved circles, scattered freehand and occasionally
touching one another.A
triangular area between the end of the bow and the inner edge of the terminal
has been left undecorated, and a similar interruption of decoration appears on
the underside of the bow.The
rims of the terminals carry three ridges, both inside and outside. A ring
of hatched triangles rises from the highest inner ridge.This
type of fastener is an Irish adaptation of a northern European clothespin, in
which two conjoined circular plates are furnished with a fastening pin; pins
are absent in the Irish form. Many of these fasteners (all except two are
in gold) have been found in Ireland,
where they have a wide distribution; such ornaments were also exported to Britain.
Also known as a fibula or fibulae.
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