1. IntroductionLuc Amkreutz and David FontijnPart I The Ommerschans hoard. History and context2. The one that got away: The Ommerschans hoard - found, lost and found againLuc Amkreutz3. 'A nasty den of ghostly apparitions': The site in its natural and archaeological contextJoris Brattinga and Luc Amkreutz4. The hoard with dirk from Ommerschans: Reconstruction of the place of depositionCorrie BakelsPart II The Ommerschans finds. Description and object research5. The Ommerschans sword: A descriptionLuc Amkreutz and David Fontijn6.
The making of the dirk: What can chemical analysis and imaging techniques tell us?Ineke Joosten, Luc Megens, Tonny Beentjes, Luc Amkreutz, Yueer Li and Lambert van Eijck7. Replicating the Ommerschans sword: Interview with a bronze smithKarsten Wentink, Luc Amkreutz and Jeroen Zuiderwijk8. Not at all random: Description of the small objects in the Ommerschans hoardLuc Amkreutz and David Fontijn9. About the great little objects in the Ommerschans hoard: A study into the metal composition, corrosion and wearBertil van Os, Liesbeth Theunissen, Ineke Joosten and Luc Megens10. Shine on you crazy diamond: Functional analysis of the stone and flint tools from the Ommerschans hoardKarsten Wentink, Annelou van Gijn and Ineke JoostenPart III Interpreting aggrandised objects and deposition. Origins, parallels and perspectives11. Does size matter? The Jutphaas find - a dirk-sized ceremonial Bronze Age object and its aggrandised counterpartsDavid Fontijn and Luc Amkreutz12. The French dirks: Plougrescant and BeauneRolande Simon-Millot and Léonard Dumont13.
British ceremonial weapons revisited: A new Plougrescant-Ommerschans dirk from East Rudham, Norfolk, and its typological, geochemical and landscape contextStuart Needham and Neil Wilkin14. A comparative metallurgical analysis of the six dirks of Plougrescant-Ommerschans typeLiesbeth Theunissen and Bertil van Os15. Unfinished business? Blunt questions about the Caistor-St-Edmund-Melle rapiersEugène Warmenbol16. Aggrandised axes at the end of the Early Bronze Age in Central Europe: The hoard from Kläden in Saxony-AnhaltRegine Maraszek17. Strange by design: The Tollebeek spearhead revisedValerio Gentile and Bastiaan SteffensPart IV Synthesis18. Religion and metal rush: Deposition of valuables from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age in ScandinaviaHelle Vandkilde19. Larger than life: Interpreting the Ommerschans hoardLuc Amkreutz and David FontijnList of authors.