Dunaverney flesh-hook

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Dunaverney flesh-hook
Dunaverney flesh-hook
MaterialBronze
Createdlate Bronze Age
(1050 BC – 900 BC)[1]
Discovered1829, Garry Bog, Dunaverney, County Antrim
Present locationBritish Museum
Bronze Age
↑ Chalcolithic
Africa,
Mesopotamia, Sistan, Canaan
Late Bronze Age collapse
Indian subcontinent c. 3300–1200 BC
Indus Valley Civilisation, Bronze Age India, Ochre Coloured Pottery, Cemetery H
Caucasus, Catacomb culture, Srubnaya culture, Bell Beaker culture, Apennine culture, Terramare culture, Únětice culture, Tumulus culture, Urnfield culture, Proto-Villanovan culture, Hallstatt culture, Canegrate culture, Golasecca culture, Argaric culture, Atlantic Bronze Age, Bronze Age Britain, Nordic Bronze Age
Eurasia and Siberia (c. 2700–700 BC)
Poltavka culture, Abashevo culture, Sintashta culture, Andronovo culture, Mezhovskaya culture, Cherkaskul culture
East Asia (c. 3100–300 BC)
Erlitou, Erligang, Gojoseon, Jomon, Majiayao, Mumun, Qijia, Siwa, Wucheng, Xindian, Yueshi, Xia dynasty, Shang dynasty, Sanxingdui, Zhou dynasty
Topics
literature, Sword, Chariot
↓ Iron Age

The Dunaverney Flesh-Hook is a sophisticated

Late Bronze Age, between 1050 and 900 BC. Since 1856, it has been in the British Museum in London.[2]

Description

Along the top of the

cygnets. The two sets of birds seem to invoke opposites: birds of water versus birds of the air; white ranged against black, fecundity as opposed to death (implied by the predatory character of ravens). Perhaps, in the mind of the Bronze Age inhabitants, the two sets of birds denoted a fable of opposites between good and bad. The flesh-hook was originally linked by pieces of oak
shaft, only one fragment of which remains extant.

Discovery

The Dunaverney Flesh-Hook was discovered in 1829 by workmen who were cutting

birds seen on the Dunaverney Flesh-Hook remains unique in north-west Europe.[3]

See also

Gallery

  • The corvids at the end
    The corvids at the end
  • The waterbirds in the middle
    The waterbirds in the middle
  • The hook
    The hook
  • The right-hand side of the flesh-hook (the cauldron is unrelated)
    The right-hand side of the flesh-hook (the cauldron is unrelated)

References

  1. ^ "Bronze flesh-hook". The British Museum. 2010. Retrieved 29 June 2010.
  2. ^ British Museum Collections
  3. S2CID 161084139. Archived from the original on 8 August 2017. Retrieved 6 February 2023.{{cite journal}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link
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