Archaeology Ireland magazine, Spring 2008, Vol 22 No 1, Issue 83: Left but not lost – Bronze Age deposition; leprosy in Hiberno-Norse Dublin, climate change on the west coast

Archaeology Ireland, Spring 2008, Volume 22 No. 1, Issue No. 83 (cover price €6.50/£5.00), the quarterly magazine of Irish archaeology. Cover lines: Left but not lost – Bronze Age deposition; Leprosy in Hiberno-Norse Dublin; Climate change on the west coast. Cover image: an early Bronze Age gold lunula from County Galway (photograph National Museum of Ireland). Features: 'Gone fishin'' – prehistoric fish-traps in Dublin (page 8); Left but not lost – Bronze Age deposition (12); A perfect prehistoric storm? – climate change on the west coast (16); 'The glamour of ancient greatness' – the Lithberg Report (20); 200,000-year-old flint from County Down (23); Outcasts, or care in the community? – leprosy in Hiberno-Norse Dublin (26); Tracking the bogs – the 2007 Peatland Survey (32); Know your monuments: post-medieval fieldscapes, part 1 – clachans (36). Tom Condit's editorial, 'A time after which', calls for the publication of excavation results after the Royal Irish Academy's 2006 forum on the future of Irish archaeology. 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, Bronze Age gold, lunulae, votive deposition, leprosy, Viking and Hiberno-Norse Dublin, palaeoclimate, peatland survey, Palaeolithic Ireland, clachans.

Author: Tom Condit (ed.)

Publisher: Wordwell

Publication Date: 2008

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

Condition: Used - Very Good