Archaeology – Meáin of Aran https://www.meainofaran.ie Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:56:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 https://www.meainofaran.ie/wp-content/uploads/cropped-name-only-blue-32x32.png Archaeology – Meáin of Aran https://www.meainofaran.ie 32 32 Dún Aonghasa – The Guidebook https://www.meainofaran.ie/product/dun-aonghasa-the-guidebook/ Thu, 03 Dec 2020 11:55:49 +0000 https://www.meainofaran.ie/product/dun-aonghasa-the-guidebook/ In this excellent guide, Cotter records that the hillfort residents of Dun Aonghusa had their own thriving bronze casting industry, producing one of the largest collections of late Bronze Age clay moulds recorded in Ireland or Britain. Swords, spearheads, knives, bracelets, pins and axes were cast there.
The author also addresses the abiding question – did half of Dún Aonghasa fall into the sea?

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