Aspects of the Bronze Age in the Atlantic Archipelago and Beyond : Proceedings from the Belfast Bronze Age Forum, 9-10 November 2013.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandherm, Dirk.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (402 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bicester : Archaeopress, 2025.

Summary:

This volume presents 21 peer-reviewed studies on the Bronze Age in Ireland, Britain, and beyond. Covering themes like technology, trade, and identity, it offers fresh insights into metalworking, burial practices, and landscape use, making it a key reference for Atlantic Bronze Age research.

Contents:

Cover

Title page

Copyright information

Editors' note and acknowledgements

Contents

Almost lost between the lines: the concept of the Atlantic Bronze Age

A Scheme for the British Bronze Age by C F C Hawkes

Dating the entrance graves and cists of the Isles of Scilly

The emergence of a Bronze Age on the Isle of Man

One foot in sea, and one on shore: movement along the British North Sea coastline in the Early Bronze Age

Mapping the flow: introduction to Atlantic Europe and the Metal Ages project

The Bronze Age mines dating project and some new ideas on ore extraction and smelting

Derrycarhoon mine and the supply of copper in later Bronze Age Ireland

Linking ore to metal: characterizing the ores and tracing the metal from the Great Orme Bronze Age copper mine in north Wales

Mining, making, and stone tools: the earliest metal objects in Britain and Ireland

Cushion stones and company: British and Irish finds of stone metalworking implements from the Bell Beaker period to the Late Bronze Age

Once unburied, yet unfound: a survey of the moulds for casting swords in Late Bronze Age Britain

Commensality and casting: a discussion of Irish Late Bronze Age cauldrons

Bronze Age halberds: use-wear and functionality

Return to the source: the use of stone in pottery in later Bronze Age Britain

Well shaved travellers: Irish and Scottish Early Bronze Age razors

Sockets full of scrap? Remarks on deliberate fragmentation in Late Bronze Age metal deposits in south-eastern and north-western Europe

The Baltinglass hillfort cluster in the context of the Irish hillfort phenomenon: an initial view

The re-use of prehistoric burnt mounds in Ireland: the importance of social memory, identity and place

Chronologies and connections: exploring the reuse of rock art and geological choice in Bronze Age Ireland.

Bronze Age landscape rules of deposition around Lakes Mälaren and Hjälmaren, Sweden

Index of place names (in alphabetical order)

Index of place names (by country)

List of contributors

2013 Bronze Age Forum Programme.

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ISBN:

1-80583-130-5

9781805831303