The Archaeology of Copper Mining on Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork, Ireland
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11613266 |
|---|---|
| Authors | C Stephen Briggs (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2003 |
| Volume | 160 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 200-228 |
| Publication date | 2003-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0066-5983 • E-ISSN: 2373-2288 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00665983.2003.11078174 |
| OpenAlex | W1996114719 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 7 |
Some thirty shallow workings (adits/pits) on Mount Gabriel, Co. Cork, Ireland (Irish National Grid V 93 34) are believed to date from the Bronze Age. Radiometric dates place charcoal from excavations between 1966 and 1987 firmly in the second millennium BC. Documentation of historic mining in the same area has been felt not to challenge either this dating or the location of what have been seen as distinctly separate prehistoric and historic industrial ventures. The excavated stratigraphies are here re-appraised, demonstrating that the locations of at least some historic 'trials' were coincident with the mineral extraction pits producing Bronze Age charcoal. In the continuing absence of diagnostically Bronze Age cultural debris, it is proposed that the adits mapped and excavated archaeologically are being misascribed Bronze Age origins and that the calibrated charcoal derives from local peat formations, the origin of which was unconnected with mineral extraction
Archaeology · Art · Copper · Copper mine · Cork · Geography · Metallurgy · Mount · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Engineering · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · Materials Science
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |