Bronze Age Forum 2013 Saturday, 9 November 9.00
Welcome
9.05
Catherine J. Frieman & “The hills declare”: Barrow clusters and alignments in southeast James Lewis Cornwall
9.25
David Mullin & Jodie Lewis
Four workmen, three days, fifteen barrows: Bronze Age, 19th and 21st century excavations on Mendip round barrows
9.45
John Hammond
Variety is the spice of life ... and death especially when it comes to barrows!
10.05
Jennifer Wexler, Frances Healy, Neil Wilkin & Ben Roberts
The Reffley Wood Barrow Project: rediscovery and evaluation of the excavation archive in the British Museum
10.25
Discussion
10.45
Coffee
11.05
Neil Wilkin
“What ceremony else?” Food Vessel burial in England and Wales
11.25
Sam Walsh
Finding social age and gender in Early Bronze Age northern England
11.45
Alice Rogers
The British North Sea coast in the Early Bronze Age: maritime movement and the burial evidence
12.05
Edward Caswell
Bodies, burnings and burials: analysing Middle Bronze Age cremations in Britain
12.25
Discussion
12.45
Lunch
14.05
Richard Bradley
Croft Moraig stone circle – the re-excavation of a type site
14.25
Katharine Sawyer
Dating the entrance graves and cists of the Isles of Scilly
14.45
Rachel Crellin
The emergence of a Bronze Age on the Isle of Man
15.05
John Koch
Referring back to the Bronze Age from the dawn of Palaeohispanic literacy: the south-western inscriptions interpreted as nativism
15.25
Discussion
15.45
Coffee
16.05
Neil Carlin
Different pottery, similar practices? Understanding Beakerassociated ceremonial practices in Ireland
16.25
Stuart Needham
Who were the halberd bearers?
16.45
Kate Verkooijen
Tears of the sun: Bronze Age amber spacers from Britain and Europe
17.05
Lisa Moloney
Amber in the Irish Bronze Age – a scientific and social investigation
17.25
Discussion
Sunday, 10 November 9.00
Simon Timberlake
The Bronze Age mines dating project and some new ideas on ore extraction and smelting
9.20
William O’Brien
Late Bronze Age copper mining in Ireland
9.40
R. Alan Williams
Ore to Metal – Geochemical opportunities at the Great Orme Bronze Age copper mine to define a metal group and trace the metal supply
10.00
Peter Bray & Catriona Gibson
Mapping and interpreting the flow of metal in Bronze Age Atlantic Europe: new chemical and archaeological approaches
10.20
Discussion
10.40
Coffee
11.00
Trevor Cowie & Daniel Sahlén
Feats of clay: bronze working at North Kessock, near Inverness around the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age transition
11.20
Brendan O’Connor
A stone mould from Trevalga, Cornwall, and racloirs triangulaires
11.40
David Bell
Bronze Age Halberds: Use-wear and functionality
12.00
Andrea Dolfini, Kate Anderson & Rachel Crellin
Bronze Age combat: an experimental approach
12.20
Discussion
12.40
Lunch
14.00
Katherine Leonard
Evidence of a good night out? A discussion of repairs to Irish later Bronze Age cauldrons
14.20
Robert Wiseman
Burying the hatchet: depositing sword pairs in the British Bronze Age
14.40
Dirk Brandherm & Christian Horn
Three shall be the number ...
15.00
Tobias Mörtz & Trevor Cowie
Duddingston Loch and Peelhill Farm revisited: Late Bronze Age weapon deposits in Scotland and beyond
15.20
Joanna Brück
Gifts or commodities? Reconfiguring Bronze Age exchange in northwest Europe
15.40
Discussion