Colin B Burgess (1938–2014) was an archaeologist specializing in the Bronze Age , especially in the north east of England and the Mediterranean.
5-897: The Overton Period is the name given by archaeologist Colin Burgess to a division of prehistory in Britain covering the period between 2000 BC and 1650 BC. It follows the Mount Pleasant Period and precedes the Bedd Branwen Period , and is named after the typesite of the West Overton barrow cemetery in Wiltshire . During the Overton Period the first signs of Bronze Age burial practices – urned cremations and food vessel burials – appear in
10-569: A scheme for Bronze Age chronology that is still in use today. He established the Bronze Age Studies Group , and international group of scholars that first met in 1976, and continued to meet as late as 2016. Building on his undergraduate dissertation, his 1988 work, written with I. A. Colquhoun, The swords of Britain, catalogs over 800 examples of Bronze Age swords. Burgess and Colquhoun use methods from experimental archaeology to suggest that it took three weeks to manufacture
15-480: The 1980s, Burgess moved to France, having grown "disillusioned" with trends in British archaeology. (This disillusionment is expressed most forcefully in a note published in the 2001 reissue of his textbook, The Age of Stonehenge .) In this period he was particularly interested in the archaeology of Sardinia . He returned to England for medical treatment towards the end of his life. In the 1960s, Burgess developed
20-619: The United Kingdom is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Colin Burgess (archaeologist) Originally from London , Burgess studied at Cardiff University , where he wrote an undergraduate dissertation on bronze-age metalwork from the Thames . For most of his career, he worked at Newcastle University , where he focused on the archaeology of north east of England, and formed relationships with both amateur archaeologists and international scholars. Sometime in or after
25-532: The archaeological record, as well as the last stages of the use of Beaker pottery. Rich Wessex culture burials emerged during the period such as that at Bush Barrow near Stonehenge . Characteristic metalworking types include the Amorico-British dagger and the Falkland industries, which demonstrate influences from the continental Unetice culture . This article relating to archaeology in
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