Contents
1. 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 & John T Koch: Mapping the flow: introduction to Atlantic Europe and the Metal Ages project
2. Mining, Metalworking and Artefact Studies
Simon Timberlake & 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 & Tobias Mörtz: Sockets full of scrap? Remarks on deliberate fragmentation in Late Bronze Age metal deposits in south-eastern and north-western Europe
3. 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
4. Indices and Appendices
Index of place names (in alphabetical order)
Index of place names (by country)
List of contributors
2013 Bronze Age Forum programme
