CONTENTS

HELEN LEWIS

  • Editorial V

BRIAN G. SCOTT AND RENA MAGUIRE

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later Bronze Age linchpin provenanced to Dunmore, Co. Galway 1

MAEVE TOBIN, DAVID MCILREAVY, JOANNA MOORE AND JANET MONTGOMERY Punishment in the Iron Age? A case study from Carroweighter, Co. Roscommon 7

SAM HUGHES

Edges of empire: a reassessment of Irish ‘sub-Roman’ swords 27

BRENDAN O’NEILL

Treasured objects: piloting a first-stage methodology to assess technological complexity in early 41 medieval Irish non-ferrous metalworking

MATTHEW SEAVER,

WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM PAUL MULLARKEY GERARD BARRETT AND KERRY ALLEN Radiocarbon dating of spearbutts of doorknob type from Deerpark (Co.Wexford), Maghery 55 (Co.Armagh), Derrymore (Co. Sligo) and Hillquarter (Co.Westmeath)

ANDREW W. LAMB AND MARTIN SCHÖNFELDER

Spearbutts for horse bits: a new interpretation for certain bronze fittings from the Irish Iron Age 69

MARK E. HALL The metallography of Hiberno-Norse knife-edges from Dublin and Waterford—a summary 81

JUDITH CARROLL

The seventeenth-century defences of Bandon—findings from the Flood Relief Scheme 93

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ANDREW EUGENE ANDERSON MARION DOWD A study of cillíní (children’s burial grounds) in County Donegal 119

MARION DOWD

Correction to JIAVolume XXX, 2021 134

BOOK REVIEWS 135

ANN PRESTON-JONES,ANDREW LANGDON and ELISABETH OKASHA. Ancient and high crosses of Cornwall. Cornwall’s earliest, tallest and finest medieval stone crosses, reviewed by Joanna Pyrgies.

BARBARA ARMBRUSTER. Les ors de l’Europe atlantique à l’âge du Bronze: technologies et ate-liers, reviewed by Linda Boutoille.