The Ringlemere Cup:

Precious Cups and the Beginning of the Channel Bronze Age

Editors: Stuart Needham, Keith Parfitt and Gillian Varndell
Contributors: Aaron Birchenough, Chris Butler, Caroline Cartwright, Stuart Needham, Susan La Niece, Keith Parfitt, Gillian Varndell

British Museum Research Publication 163
ISBN 13: 978-086159-163-3
© The Trustees of the British Museum 2006

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 Introduction 

 1. Background and Survey Work 

 2. Excavations 2002–2005 

 3. The Gold Cup 

 4. Other Prehistoric Material 

 5. Ringlemere and Ritual & Burial Landscapes of Kent 

 6. Precious Cups of the Early Bronze Age 

 7. Precious Cups: Concept, Context and Custodianship 

 8. Networks of Contact, Exchange and Meaning; the Beginning of the Channel Bronze Age 

 9. Catalogue of Early Bronze Age Precious Cups 

 Bibliography 

Ringlemere

Illustration of how the Ringlemere Cup might have originally looked