Editors Foreword

Sponsorship Acknowledgements

Biographies


Articles

The Archaeology of Ambiguity

May, Andrew


Dying for their King: A Critical Analysis of the Relationship between Iron Age Bog Bodies and Boundaries

Forde, Sarah


Transformations: Assessing the Relationship between Ironworking and Burial in Early Medieval Ireland

Williams, Margaret


Never Trust a Text: Rediscovering “De Oratorio” in Hisperica Famina

Reuss, Oliver


Late Iron Age/Early Medieval Burial Grounds

Kavanagh, Claire


The Round Towers of Ireland: Date, Origin, Functions and Symbolism

Ó Riagáin, Russell


Turning Stone into Bread: Harrylock Millstone Quarry, The Hook Peninsula, County Wexford

Colfer, Niall


The Murder of Murchad Ua Maelsechnaill: a Re-examination of the Irish Round Towers

Van Etten, Nienke


With your Shield or on it: An Experimental Approach to the Greek Hoplite Shield

De Groote, Kevin Rowan


The Ancient Greek Kopis and Machaira

Parnell, Catherine Sara


Occupant, House and State in Hellenistic Greece: A Case Study of the Houses from New Halos

McHugh, Maeve


An Examination of the Iconographic Exchange between the Aegean and Egypt in the Bronze Age

McNamee, Leon


The Story of a Fragment: The Mummy Wrapping of Khnum-Nakht

Bevivino, Michael Ann


An Ethnographic Study of the Third Gender and its Application to the Archaeological Record

Harte, Michael


Reflection Section

Digging Towards the Light

Heaney, Seamus


Archive of Local Knowledge

Caulfield, Seamas


Reflections

Shee Twohig, Elizabeth


Book Reviews

An Introduction to Early Irish Literature (Author: Muireann Ní Bhrolcháin)

Farrell, Maura


Plantation Ireland: Settlement and Material Culture, c. 1550-c.1700 (Editors: James Lyttleton & Colin Rynne)

Fennelly, Katherine


Uncovering Medieval Trim: Archaeological Excavations in and around Trim, Co. Meath (Editors: Michael Potterton & Matthew Seaver)

Kelly, Niamh