CONTENTS

Helen Lewis

Editorial              

Brian G. Scott and Rena Maguire

A Later Bronze Age linchpin provenanced to Dunmore, Co. Galway

Maeve Tobin, David McIlreavy, Joanna Moore and Janet Montgomery

Punishment in the Iron Age? A case study from Carroweighter, Co. Roscommon

Sam Hughes

Edges of empire: a reassessment of Irish ‘sub-Roman’ swords

Brendan O’Neill

Treasured objects: piloting a first-stage methodology to assess technological complexity in early medieval Irish non-ferrous metalworking

Matthew Seaver,

with contributions from Paul Mullarkey Gerard Barrett and Kerry Allen

Radiocarbon dating of spearbutts of doorknob type from Deerpark (Co. Wexford), Maghery (Co. Armagh), Derrymore (Co. Sligo) and Hillquarter (Co. Westmeath)

Andrew W. Lamb and Martin Schönfelder

Spearbutts for horse bits: a new interpretation for certain bronze fittings from the Irish Iron Age

Mark E. Hall

The metallography of Hiberno-Norse knife-edges from Dublin and Waterford—

                a summary

Judith Carroll

The seventeenth-century defences of Bandon—findings from the Flood Relief Scheme

Andrew Eugene Anderson† and Marion Dowd

A study of cillíní (children’s burial grounds) in County Donegal

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