[MR] Book on Irish Crafts
Garth Groff via Atlantia
atlantia at seahorse.atlantia.sca.org
Tue May 12 12:27:32 PDT 2015
Noble Friends,
Just received at the UVA Fine Arts Library: EARLY MEDIEVAL CRAFTS AND
PRODUCTION IN IRELAND, AD 400-1100, THE EVIDENCE FROM RURAL SETTLEMENTS
by Thomas R. Kerr, Maureen Doyle, Matthew Seaver, Finbar McCormick,
Aidan O'Sullivan (ISBN 9781407313580, our call number NK705 .K47 2015).
This huge book is a catalog of archaeological finds from sites Ireland
dating from the Dark Ages through the Viking period. A general
discussion about various crafts and their tooling opens the book. This
is followed by site reports from hundreds of excavations, each
accompanied by detailed excavation plan showing how structures were
arranged, plus scaled laboratory drawings of some objects recovered,
sometimes accompanied by black-and-white photos. The range of objects is
extensive, including bronze and iron pins, lovely glass beads, spindle
whorls, quern stones, jewelry, knife blades and handles, pottery, wood
and bone objects, etc. This book is number 2707 in the BAR [British
Archaeological Review] International Series, not something you are going
to find at a local Barnes & Noble. Your best bet would be to borrow this
book through your local library’s interlibrary loan service and
photocopy the pages of greatest use. For a Scadian interested in the
material culture of Ireland, this book would provide an excellent
resource for recreation of many material objects.
Yours Aye,
Lord Mungo Napier, That Crazy Scot
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