Archaeology Ireland magazine, Autumn 2009, Vol 23 No 3, Issue 89: U-boat losses off the Irish coast; bog bodies in a Dublin attic, 1940 aerial survey, Wicklow uplands, Bellaghy

Archaeology Ireland magazine, Autumn 2009, Vol 23 No 3, Issue 89: U-boat losses off the Irish coast; bog bodies in a Dublin attic, 1940 aerial survey, Wicklow uplands, Bellaghy

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Archaeology Ireland magazine, Autumn 2009, Vol 23 No 3, Issue 89: U-boat losses off the Irish coast; bog bodies in a Dublin attic, 1940 aerial survey, Wicklow uplands, Bellaghy

Archaeology Ireland magazine, Autumn 2009, Vol 23 No 3, Issue 89: U-boat losses off the Irish coast; bog bodies in a Dublin attic, 1940 aerial survey, Wicklow uplands, Bellaghy

€9.99

Archaeology Ireland, Autumn 2009, Volume 23 No. 3, Issue No. 89 (cover price €6.50/£5.00), the quarterly magazine of Irish archaeology. Cover lines: U-boat losses off the Irish coast – stories of the 150 or so U-boat wrecks on the seabed in deep water off Ireland; Two feet in the attic – parts of ancient bog bodies discovered in an attic in Dublin; Aerial photography – photographic resources compiled with destruction and domination in mind; Post-medieval settlement – land-use patterns in the Wicklow uplands. Cover image: the bow of the type VIIC/41 U-boat U-1271 on the seabed 10 km north of Malin Head. Features: obituary of Blaze O'Connor, 1975–2009 (page 8); In search of the 'Bully's Acre' (9); From the archives – a 1940 aerial photographic survey from Dún Laoghaire to Clogher Head (11); The Grange of Clonkeen, Co. Dublin (16); A killeen burial ground in St Laurencesfields and the lepers of Loughrea (18); U-boat losses off the Irish coast (22); The Cloghoge and Inchavore valleys, Co. Wicklow (26); Know your monuments: medieval fisheries (30); Not one foot in the grave – two feet in the attic (34); The 'bawn' of a new era at Bellaghy (36); 'Preservation by destruction' (38). Tom Condit's editorial, 'Fusing time', on the archaeology of the recent past. 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, maritime archaeology, U-boat wrecks, Second World War, Luftwaffe aerial photography, bog bodies, burial grounds, Wicklow uplands, Bellaghy bawn, medieval fisheries.

Author: Tom Condit (ed.)

Publisher: Wordwell

Publication Date: 2009

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good

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