J Ir Archaeol 8

Reports on excavations conducted in 1976, which revealed a cashel-like penannular enclosure incorporating a ruined chamber of megalithic character. Two occupation levels were noted: the lower yielding Wester Neolithic Ware pottery, a plano-convex flint knife, two cremations and five deposits of mollusc shells; while the small upper and secondary floor yielded an iron object, bone needle, stone objects (a bracelet, a ring and two spindle whorls) and many bones of underfed and immature animals. Appendices comprise a `Report on stone ring and bangle' by J C Brindley (21) and a `Report on the animal bones' by Edelgard Harbison-Soergel (21--2).

Reports on rescue excavations of a tumulus, conducted between 1966 and 1967, which revealed eight cist graves and six secondary pit burials. Cremations were found in six cists, and two cists contained unburnt bone; six cists contained bowl-type funerary vessels. Cremations were present in all six pit burials, three of which included Vase Urns. Other finds included a miniature cup, a small rim sherd, a perforated bone pendant or amulet, and a six-rivetted bronze dagger (of Armorico-British type) with its bone pommel. `The radiocarbon dates' are presented by A L Brindley (56--7) and `The human remains' [and some animal bones found in association with them] are discussed by Barra Ó Donnabhán (57--71).

A reconsideration of the later Bronze Age horizon of the building excavated by the Harvard Archaeological Mission (published in 1942). It is argued that there were in fact two buildings and that ten circular wicker structures should be re-dated to the sixth century AD.

Offers a range of interpretations for the role of LBA lake settlements in their contemporary social, economic and sacred landscapes. The diversity of structures and finds found on these sites suggests that they had a range of functions, not always plainly obvious from a simple `reading' of the archaeological record.