
Excavations at Knowth Volume 5: The archaeology of Knowth in the first and second millenia AD
George Eogan(Author)
Royal Irish Academy (Publisher)
Published on 20. June 2012
Book
Mixed media product
960 pages
978-1-904890-62-1 (ISBN)
Description
The ancient burial sites of Knowth, Newgrange and Dowth make up the archaeological complex at Brugh na Boinne, a UNESCO world heritage site which has attracted enormous international interest. George Eogan began excavating the site at Knowth in 1962 and this is the fifth volume of the Excavations at Knowth monograph series. Volume 5 presents the findings relating to the use of the site from the Late Iron Age to the modern era. The huge array of finds excavated at Knowth associated with the period under consideration are presented, with an accompanying CD-ROM cataloguing the un-illustrated finds. A series of appendices deals with such topics as the metal content of a selection of the Roman, Viking, and Early Christian artefacts from Knowth, and the findings of a geophysical survey conducted on one area of the site in late 2011.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Dublin
Ireland
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 279 mm
Width: 217 mm
Thickness: 68 mm
Weight
3459 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-904890-62-1 (9781904890621)
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George Eogan is an Irish archaeologist with particular interest in the Neolithic and Late Bronze Ages. He is Professor Emeritus of Celtic Archaeology at University College Dublin. He was the Director of the Knowth Research Project and excavated at Knowth for more than 40 years as part of his investigation of the Passage Tomb builders in Ireland and Western Europe.