Archaeology Ireland magazine, Autumn 2008, Vol 22 No 3, Issue 85: The origins of cillíní; Neolithic body-piercing, LiDAR survey of Tara, Kinsale 1601, bedrock mortars

Archaeology Ireland, Autumn 2008, Volume 22 No. 3, Issue No. 85 (cover price €6.50/£5.00), the quarterly magazine of Irish archaeology. Cover lines: The origins of cillíní; Neolithic body-piercing; High-resolution survey of Tara. Cover image: the cillín at Castle Carra, Cushendall, Co. Antrim. Features: Between a rock and a hard place – bedrock mortars (page 8); 'A more miserable siege hath not been seen': Kinsale, 1601 (10); Kilkenny city's M3? (14); T. N. Deane no better than Westropp – graffiti (17); 'Have you no homes to go to?' – Neolithic housing (18); Know your monuments: post-medieval fieldscapes, part 2 – rundale (22); The origins of cillíní, the children's burial grounds (26); Lesser-spotted feathered friends – medieval bird remains (30); Piercing the Neolithic (32); More than meets the eye – LiDAR survey of Tara (34). Tom Condit's editorial, 'Gobbledygook', takes aim at jargon in archaeological writing. Cillíní – the burial grounds used for unbaptised infants and others denied burial in consecrated ground – survive in their thousands across Ireland, and the issue traces their origins; the Tara feature presents the airborne laser (LiDAR) survey of the Hill of Tara. 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, cillíní, burial archaeology, Neolithic Ireland, Neolithic houses, Hill of Tara, LiDAR, Battle of Kinsale 1601, rundale, medieval zooarchaeology.

Author: Tom Condit (ed.)

Publisher: Wordwell

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

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