Aspects of the Bronze Age in the Atlantic Archipelago and Beyond

Contents

Concepts, Chronologies and Connections

Dirk Brandherm – Almost lost between the lines: the concept of the Atlantic Bronze Age

Sabine Gerloff and Brendan O’Connor – A scheme for the British Bronze Age by C.F.C. Hawkes

Katharine Sawyer – Dating the entrance graves and cists of the Isles of Scilly

Rachel J. Crellin – The emergence of a Bronze Age on the Isle of Man

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

Catriona Gibson, Peter Bray, Kerri Cleary, Fernando Fernández Palacios and John T. Koch – Mapping the flow: introduction to Atlantic Europe and the Metal Ages project

Mining, Metalworking and Artefact Studies

Simon Timberlake and Peter Marshall – The Bronze Age mines dating project and some new ideas on ore extraction and smelting

William O’Brien – Derrycarhoon mine and the supply of copper in later Bronze Age Ireland

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

Andrew P. Fitzpatrick – Mining, making, and stone tools: the earliest metal objects in Britain and Ireland

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

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

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

David Bell – Bronze Age halberds: use-wear and functionality

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

Ros Ó Maoldúin – Well shaved travellers: Irish and Scottish Early Bronze Age razors

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

Landscape, Settlement and Rock Art

James O’Driscoll – The Baltinglass hillfort cluster in the context of the Irish hillfort phenomenon: an initial view

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

Rebecca Aroon Enlander – Chronologies and connections: exploring the re-use of rock art and geological choice in Bronze Age Ireland

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

Indices and Appendices

Index of place names (in alphabetical order)

Index of place names (by country)

List of contributors

2013 Bronze Age Forum programme

About the Author

Dirk Brandherm is Reader in Prehistory at Queen’s University Belfast and current President of the UISPP’s Metal Ages commission. His research interests are primarily concerned with exploring the dynamics of societal change in later prehistory, particularly in the Chalcolithic and in the Bronze and Iron Ages of Western Europe and the Mediterranean.