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A POWER TO INTRIGUE? EXPLORING THE ‘TIMELESS’ QUALITIES OF THE SO‐CALLED ‘GROTESQUE’ IRON AGE TORC FROM SNETTISHAM, NORFOLK
(Wiley, 2019) Jody Joy
Summary Sometimes we come across objects that truly intrigue us. Not necessarily because they are great examples of art, or because they are made of precious materials, but because there is some other quality which captures our attention. One of these can be age. Just as age adds character to people’s faces, the patina of an object or visible signs of damage and use instils an object with a certain ‘charisma’ or ‘aura’. This paper examines in detail the so‐called grotesque torc, a neck‐ring dating to the Iron Age which has been extensively repaired. The repairs are crude and obvious, which gives the object its distinctive appearance. It is argued that these signs of age, inscribed onto the artefact through its life, imbued the torc with a timeless ‘anachronic’ quality: its visible age manifests a certain charisma or aura, helping facilitate a plural relationship with time.
Dea Senuna: treasure, cult and ritual at Ashwell, Hertfordshire <b>Dea Senuna: treasure, cult and ritual at Ashwell, Hertfordshire</b> , by Ralph Jackson and Gilbert Burleigh, London, British Museum Press (Research Publication 194), 2018, vi and 364 pp., Illus. 369, £40.00 (Paperback), ISBN: 978 086159 194 7.
(Taylor & Francis, 2019) Jody Joy
"Dea Senuna: treasure, cult and ritual at Ashwell, Hertfordshire." Archaeological Journal, 176(2), pp. 420–421