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Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 8
- Who will use this book?
- 10
- Questions, not answers
- 10
- Where do we start?
- 11
- Organisation and layout of the book
- 12
- Section One
- 13
- Discovery: finding something new
- 13
- Walkabout (ground reconnaissance)
- 13
- Treasures under shifting sand
- 14
- Searching for Artefacts
- 14
- A bird’s-eye view
- 15
- Under the turf
- 16
- Accidental discovery
- 17
- The importance of context
- 17
- Reporting your find
- 18
- Safety and right-of-way
- 19
- Section Two
- 20
- Investigating manmade features
- 20
- Section Three
- 27
- Landscape features
- 27
- Dry lakes
- 27
- Hot springs
- 29
- Section Four
- 30
- Using maps in road research
- 30
- Eskers and esker roads
- 31
- Other ancient roadways
- 32
- Toghers and bog roads
- 34
- River crossings
- 35
- Bohers and bohereens
- 36
- Famous historic roads
- 37
- Modern roads
- 38
- Lesser and greater kingdoms
- 40
- Section Five
- 41
- Ancient field systems
- 41
- Ditches & hedgerows
- 43
- Field shapes and sizes
- 45
- House platforms
- 46
- Cultivation ridges
- 47
- Section Six
- 49
- The Stone Age
- 49
- Megalithic monuments of the Stone Age
- 50
- Tumuli and cairns
- 51
- Court tombs
- 53
- Portal tombs or dolmens
- 54
- Passage tombs
- 56
- Wedge tombs
- 58
- Cist Burials
- 60
- Barrows
- 60
- Pit burials
- 61
- Henge monuments
- 62
- Section Seven
- 64
- Bronze Age monuments
- 64
- Standing stones
- 64
- Stone alignments
- 65
- Stone circles
- 66
- Boulder burials
- 68
- Fulachta fia
- 69
- Ogham stones
- 70
- Section Eight
- 72
- Forts
- 72
- Ringforts
- 73
- Stone-forts (stone ringforts)
- 76
- Promontory forts and cliff forts
- 77
- Hill-top enclosures
- 78
- Section Nine
- 81
- Linear earthworks
- 81
- Cursus monuments
- 82
- Crannogs
- 82
- Souterrains
- 84
- Section Ten
- 86
- Graveyards: early monastic sites?
- 86
- High Crosses
- 89
- Round Towers
- 91
- Beehive huts
- 92
- Other graveyards
- 93
- Cillíns
- 94
- Medieval churches
- 95
- Section Eleven
- 99
- Abbeys, friaries and priories
- 99
- Cistercian abbeys
- 99
- Other medieval monasteries
- 101
- Section Twelve
- 102
- Earth and timber: motte-and-bailey castles
- 102
- Ringworks
- 104
- Anglo-Norman stone-castles
- 104
- Moated sites
- 107
- Anglo-Norman towns
- 108
- Towns and Villages
- 110
- Section Thirteen
- 112
- Early Modern military fortifications
- 112
- Section Fourteen
- 115
- Vernacular houses
- 115
- The one-room cottage
- 118
- The two/three-room house
- 118
- Mudwall houses
- 119
- Stone houses
- 120
- Suggestions for project work on nineteenth/twentieth century cottages
- 121
- Appendix I — Glossary of Archaeological Terms
- 123
- Appendix II — Glossary of Irish Words in Placenames
- 138
- Appendix III — TimeLine
- 150
- Appendix IV
- 156
- Appendix V — Distribution Diagrams
- 160
- Appendix VI — Key
- 171
- Further Reading
- 172
- Index
- 174