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Burnt mounds: cooking or bathing?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Diarmuid A. Ó Drisceoil
Diarmuid A. Ó Drisceoil*
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Tosca, 52 Beaumont Drive, Ballintemple, Cork, Eire
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Burnt mounds, found across northern Europe, are especially frequent in Ireland. Here a new review of the Irish evidence is presented, and issue is taken with Barfield & Hodder's diagnosis, published in ANTIQUITY last year, that the primary function of the burnt mounds was as bathing places.

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Antiquity , Volume 62 , Issue 237 , December 1988, pp. 671 - 680
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1988

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