Archaeology Ireland magazine, Winter 2008, Vol 22 No 4, Issue 86: A Matter of Life and Death? Early medieval quernstones; Irish halberds, Caherconnell, Castle Ward, Ballyvourney
Archaeology Ireland magazine, Winter 2008, Vol 22 No 4, Issue 86: A Matter of Life and Death? Early medieval quernstones; Irish halberds, Caherconnell, Castle Ward, Ballyvourney
Archaeology Ireland, Winter 2008, Volume 22 No. 4, Issue No. 86 (cover price €6.50/£5.00), the quarterly magazine of Irish archaeology. Cover lines: A matter of life and death? – the importance of early medieval quernstones; A vision for the future or a manifesto for the Thought Police? – the National Archaeological Research Programme; Going like the clappers – the excavation and reconstruction of an unusual bridge in Ballyvourney, Co. Cork; Crossing borders in the 21st century – the experience of archaeology on the border. The cover is an archive photograph of a woman grinding grain with a rotary quern. Features: early medieval quernstones (page 8); the National Archaeological Research Programme (12); No previous experience necessary – excavations at Castle Ward, Co. Down (14); Going like the clappers (18); Up close and personal – Irish halberds (22); Crossing borders in the 21st century (26); Caherconnell, Co. Clare, and cashel chronology (30); Post-medieval fieldscapes, part 3 – field enclosure (34); 'Oakgrove' cemetery and an obituary of Simon Dick (39). Tom Condit's editorial, 'The Tiger's legacy', weighs the archaeology of the Celtic Tiger years as the recession began. 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, quernstones, early medieval Ireland, Early Bronze Age halberds, cashels, the Burren, Castle Ward, clapper bridges, cross-border archaeology, archaeological policy.
Author: Tom Condit (ed.)
Publisher: Wordwell
Publication Date: 2008
Binding: Single Issue Magazine
Condition: Used - Very Good