Highhays, Kilkenny : a medieval pottery production centre in south-east Ireland / Emma Devine and Coilin O. Drisceoil.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Devine, Emma, author.

Ó Drisceoil, Cóilín, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Excavations (Archaeology)--Ireland--Kilkenny.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Pottery, Medieval--Ireland--Kilkenny.

Pottery, Medieval.

Pottery industry--Ireland--Kilkenny.

Pottery industry.

Kilkenny (Ireland)--Antiquities.

Kilkenny (Ireland).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford, England : Oxbow Books, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Comprehensive account of the 14th-century pottery-making site at Kilkenny, its output and impact.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

List of figures

List of tables

Authors and contributors

Note on conventions

Archaeological excavation archive

Abbreviations

Preface

Foreword

Summary

1. Introduction, by Emma Devine and Coilin O Drisceoil

2. The pottery production centre excavations (Area 1, Period 1), by Emma Devine, Coilin O Drisceoil and Niamh Curtin

3. Bake-yard excavations (Area 2, Period 1), abandonment and subsequent land-use (Areas 1 and 2, Periods 2 and 3), by Coilin O Drisceoil

4. The products of the Highhays pottery, by Coilin O Drisceoil, Clare McCutcheon and Joanna Wren

5. Highhays Ware, a provenance and distribution study, by Niamh Curtin, Coilin O Drisceoil, Michael J. Hughes and Richard Unitt

6. Non-ceramic finds, by Orla Scully, Coilin O Drisceoil, Joe Norton, Jimmy Lenehan and Paul Rondelez

7. Archaeobotanical and charcoal analysis, by Mary Dillon and Ingelise Stuijts

8. Highhays and the archaeology of medieval pottery production and town suburbs in Ireland, by Coilin O Drisceoil

Bibliography

Appendix 1: Archaeomagnetic dating of the pottery kiln at Highhays, Kilkenny, by Vassil Karloukovski and Mark W. Hounslow

Appendix 2: Radiocarbon dates

Appendix 3: Post-medieval pottery, by Clare McCutcheon

Appendix 4: Post-medieval clay building material, by Joanna Wren

Appendix 5: Animal bone, by Karin Ilseth

Appendix 6: Disarticulated human remains, by Karin Ilseth.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781789258554

1789258553

9781789258547

1789258545

OCLC:

1334718602