Archaeology Ireland magazine, Autumn 2007, Vol 21 No 3, Issue 81: Ale, brewing and fulachta fiadh; Anglo-Norman Cashel, the Sea Stallion Viking ship, Google Earth, ringforts

Archaeology Ireland, Autumn 2007, Volume 21 No. 3, Issue No. 81 (cover price €6.50/£5.00), the quarterly magazine of Irish archaeology. Cover lines: Ale, brewing and fulachta fiadh; Life and death in Anglo-Norman Cashel; Google Earth and the archaeological landscape; The power of stone. The cover photograph shows the reconstructed Viking longship Sea Stallion under sail. Features: Ale, brewing and fulachta fiadh – the much-discussed theory, put forward by Billy Quinn and Declan Moore, that burnt mounds were used to brew ale (page 8); Life and death in Anglo-Norman Cashel (12); Return of the Sea Stallion, the Roskilde replica of a Viking warship built in Dublin (15); A fossilised landscape in County Wicklow (16); How early Irish horizontal-wheeled mills really worked (21); Burials in a country churchyard (24); Google Earth and the Irish archaeological landscape (26); Know your monuments: ringforts (32); The power of stone (36). Tom Condit's editorial, 'Squiggles, spirals and lozenges', defends the written word against graphics in archaeological publishing. The Sea Stallion from Glendalough, a reconstruction of a longship built in Dublin around 1042, sailed from Roskilde to Dublin in the summer of 2007. Edited by Tom Condit; published by Wordwell. ISSN 0790-892X. 52 pages, 21 x 29.7 cm, illustrated throughout. Archaeology Ireland, founded in 1987, is the quarterly magazine that brings new Irish excavations, discoveries and research to a general readership, written by the archaeologists themselves and illustrated throughout. Back issues are collected by archaeologists, local historians and students, and many of the articles remain the most accessible published account of the sites they describe. THEMES: Irish archaeology, fulachta fiadh, brewing, Vikings in Ireland, Sea Stallion, medieval Cashel, horizontal mills, ringforts, Google Earth and landscape archaeology, Wicklow.

Author: Tom Condit (ed.)

Publisher: Wordwell

Publication Date: 2007

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good