Aspects of the Bronze Age in the Atlantic Archipelago and Beyond

Proceedings from the Belfast Bronze Age Forum, 9–10 November 2013

herausgegeben von Dirk Brandherm

Archæologia Atlantica — Monographiae — Vol. III

Hardcover, viii + 396 S.
ISBN: 978-3-942002-29-5

Contents

• Concepts, Chronologies and Connections
  
  Dirk Brandherm:
  Almost lost between the lines: the concept of the Atlantic Bronze Age
  
  Sabine Gerloff and Brendan O’Connor:
  A scheme for the British Bronze Age by C F C Hawkes
  
  Katharine Sawyer:
  Dating the entrance graves and cists of the Isles of Scilly
  
  Rachel J Crellin:
  The emergence of a Bronze Age on the Isle of Man
  
  Alice Rogers:
  One foot in sea, and one on shore: movement along the British North Sea coastline in the Early Bronze Age
  
  Catriona Gibson, Peter Bray, Kerri Cleary, Fernando Fernández Palacios & John T Koch:
  Mapping the flow: introduction to Atlantic Europe and the Metal Ages project
  
   

• Mining, Metalworking and Artefact Studies
  
  Simon Timberlake & Peter Marshall:
  The Bronze Age mines dating project and some new ideas on ore extraction and smelting
  
  William O’Brien:
  Derrycarhoon mine and the supply of copper in later Bronze Age Ireland
  
  R Alan Williams:
  Linking ore to metal: characterizing the ores and tracing the metal from the Great Orme Bronze Age copper mine in north Wales
  
  Andrew P Fitzpatrick:
  Mining, making, and stone tools: the earliest metal objects in Britain and Ireland
  
  Linda Boutoille:
  Cushion stones and company: British and Irish finds of stone metalworking implements from the Bell Beaker period to the Late Bronze Age
  
  Tobias Mörtz:
  Once unburied, yet unfound: a survey of the moulds for casting swords in Late Bronze Age Britain
  
  Katharine Leonard:
  Commensality and casting: a discussion of Irish Late Bronze Age cauldrons
  
  David Bell:
  Bronze Age halberds: use-wear and functionality
  
  David Mullin:
  Return to the source: the use of stone in pottery in later Bronze Age Britain
  
  Ros Ó Maoldúin:
  Well shaved travellers: Irish and Scottish Early Bronze Age razors
  
  Oliver Dietrich & Tobias Mörtz:
  Sockets full of scrap? Remarks on deliberate fragmentation in Late Bronze Age metal deposits in south-eastern and north-western Europe
   

• Landscape, Settlement and Rock Art
  
  James O’Driscoll:
  The Baltinglass hillfort cluster in the context of the Irish hillfort phenomenon: an initial view
  
  Alan Hawkes:
  The re-use of prehistoric burnt mounds in Ireland: the importance of social memory, identity and place
  
  Rebecca Aroon Enlander:
  Chronologies and connections: exploring the re-use of rock art and geological choice in Bronze Age Ireland
  
  Martin Rundkvist:
  Bronze Age landscape rules of deposition around Lakes Mälaren and Hjälmaren, Sweden
   

• Indices and Appendices
  Index of place names (in alphabetical order)
  Index of place names (by country)
  List of contributors
  2013 Bronze Age Forum programme

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