Irish hillforts with location of case studies

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Examples of long-distance trade in Ireland during the Bronze Age

Clashanimud hillfort, Co. Cork (Bing Maps accessed May 14, 2020)

Brusselstown Ring, Co. Wicklow, photograph (above) and Simple Local...

Head for the Hills: Nucleated Hilltop Settlement in the Irish Bronze Age

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Apr 2023

James O’Driscoll

In Bronze Age Ireland, the settlement record almost exclusively comprises individual, isolated farmsteads dotted throughout the island (Ginn in Emania, 21: 47–58, 2013; Ginn, Mapping society: Settlement structures in Later Bronze Age Ireland, Archaeopress, 2016). Recent studies have shown that these are incredibly homogeneous, with the nearly 700 e...