Research Catalog

Title

Burnt offerings : international contributions to burnt mound archaeology / compiled by Victor Buckley ; [editor, Emer Condit]

Publication

Dublin : Wordwell, 1990.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Buckley, Victor M.
• Condit, Emer
• International Burnt Mound Conference (1st : 1988 : Dublin, Ireland)

Description

195 p. : ill. (some col.), maps; 30 cm.

Subject

• Mounds > Great Britain > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Great Britain > Congresses
• Mounds > Ireland > Congresses
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Ireland > Congresses
• Great Britain > Antiquities > Congresses
• Ireland > Antiquities > Congresses

Note

• Papers originally presented at the First International Burnt Mound Conference at Trinity College, Dublin, in October 1988.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

• Fulachta fiadh in County Cork / D. Power -- Preliminary observations on the distribution of fulatche fiadh in County Kilkenny / T. Condit -- Early Bronze Age fulachts on Valencia Island / F. Mitchell -- The excavation of a fulacht fiadh at Coarhamore, Valentia Island, Co. Kerry / J. Sheehan -- Two fulachta fiadh in County Cork / M.F. Hurley -- Ancient cooking places at Catstown, near Hugginstown, County Kilkenny / M. Ryan -- A medieval cooking trough from Peter Street, Waterford / C. Walsh -- The finds from fulachte fiadh / S. Cherry -- The dating of fulachte fiadh / A.L. Brindley and J.N. Lanting -- Patterns of fieldwork and the distribution of burnt mounds in Scotland / S.P. Halliday -- Recent research into burnt mounds on Fair Isle, Shetland, and Sanday, Orkney / J.R. Hunter and S.J. Dockrill -- Excavation and Sampling of burnt mounds in Scotland / C.J. Russell-White -- The East Rhins of Galloway / C.J. Russell-White-- Arran: Machrie North and Glaister / J. Barber and D. Lehane -- Gill Pier burnt mound, Westray, Orkney / D. Lehane -- Bute and Islay / C.J. Russell-White and J. Barber -- Kilearnan Hill / A. Haggerty -- Craggie Basin / C.E. Lowe -- Kebister: burnt mounds and burnt mound material / O. Owen and C.E. Lowe -- Burnt mound material on settlement sites in Scotland / J. Barber -- Scottish burnt mounds / J. Barber -- Burnt mounds in the English West Midlands / M.A. Hodder --
• Some south Cumbrian burnt mounds / M.J. Nixon -- Recent work in north-west Wales / R.S. Kelly -- Burnt mounds in south-west Wales / G. Williams -- Skärvstenshögar - the burnt mounds in Sweden / T.B. Larsson -- An anthropologist's tale/ D. Hurl -- Fulachta fiadh: the value of early Irish literature / D.O. Drisceóil -- Provision of dates for fulachta fiadh / M. Baillie -- Experiments using a reconstructed fulacht with a variety of rock types / V. Buckley -- Soil analysis of the burnt mounds of the East Rhins / I.D. Máté -- A gazetteer of burnt mounds in Scotland / L. Ferguson.

ISBN

1869857070

OCLC

• 25826477
• SCSB-10040777

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library