Archaeology Ireland magazine, Summer 1991, Vol 5 No 2, Issue 16: A Lost Last, textiles in archaeology, house-shaped reliquaries, Dunbell, Bronze Age burial, Navan Fort cover

Archaeology Ireland, Summer 1991, Volume 5 No. 2, Issue No. 16, the quarterly magazine of Irish archaeology. Cover lines: A Lost Last; Textiles in Archaeology; Two New House Shaped Reliquaries; Excavations at Dunbell; Bronze Age Burial and Society; North Dublin's Vernacular Architecture. Cover picture: an aerial view of Navan Fort, Co. Armagh. Contents: Editorial (page 3); News (4); County Focus (7); Science and Archaeology (11); A Lost Last (14); The Blackwater and Bobbio shrines (16); Digging at Dunbell, Co. Kilkenny (18); Early Bronze Age Burials – The Social Implications (21); The Vernacular Architecture of North Co. Dublin (24); Reviews (27); Letters (30). The editorial, 'The Discovery Programme', responds to the research programme announced in May 1991 on the initiative of the Taoiseach, Charles J. Haughey – welcoming the funding while warning that Irish archaeology faced deeper problems: unmonitored threats to sites, a backlog of unpublished excavations and a National Museum unable to store or display its finds. Editorial team: Gabriel Cooney, Emer Condit, Tom Condit, Paul Gosling, Nicholas Maxwell, Una MacConville, Mary Sleeman and Brian Williams; published by Wordwell Ltd, Bray, Co. Wicklow. ISSN 0790-982X. 32 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, Navan Fort, Emain Macha, Discovery Programme, house-shaped reliquaries, early Bronze Age burial, archaeological textiles, vernacular architecture, Fingal, County Kilkenny.

Author: Gabriel Cooney (ed.)

Publisher: Wordwell

Publication Date: 1991

Binding: Single Issue Magazine

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