Archaeology Ireland magazine, Spring 2006, Vol 20 No 1, Issue 75: Secrets of the bog bodies; pottery from medieval Dublin, St Stephen's Green 1916, Achill Island, bog butter

Archaeology Ireland, Spring 2006, Volume 20 No. 1, Issue No. 75 (cover price €6.00/£5.00), the quarterly magazine of Irish archaeology. Cover lines: Secrets of the bog bodies; Pottery from medieval Dublin; The archaeology of insurrection; Achill Island. The cover shows three medieval jugs. Features: The archaeology of insurrection – St Stephen's Green, 1916 (page 8); A good walk ruined... (12); Continuity and change on Achill Island (17); Brought to book – the potter and the pot (22); Secrets of the bog bodies – the enigma of the Iron Age explained (26); Bog butter – dating, profile and location (32); Know your monuments: holy wells (35); An Alderney axe (39). Regulars: News, Quote unquote, Events, Book news and Hindsight. Tom Condit's editorial, 'Grinding axes', written for the 90th anniversary of the 1916 Rising, warns against reading present-day politics into the past, from the debates over the Rising and the Somme to the popularity of Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code as a proxy history. The bog-body feature appeared in the year the National Museum of Ireland opened Kingship and Sacrifice, its exhibition of the Iron Age bog bodies Clonycavan Man and Old Croghan Man, both found in 2003. 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, Iron Age bog bodies, bog butter, medieval Dublin pottery, 1916 Rising, St Stephen's Green, Achill Island, holy wells, conflict archaeology.

Author: Tom Condit (ed.)

Publisher: Wordwell

Publication Date: 2006

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good