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Ireland in the Late Bronze Age (settlement changes (Increasing evidence…

- - - - Fulacht Fiadh (burnt mound) resulting from cooking using heated stones in a through. - Tipperary, Kilkenny, Cork & Waterford.
      - Late Bronze Age (1150- 600 BC)
        
        increased social stratification (reflected in settlement evidence)
        
        cultural landscape = ritual/ burial activities. (Cooney, 2010).
        
        Settlement evidence = large circular house within multivallate hillfort Rathgall, co. Wicklow. - grain storage. (Cooney, 2010).
      - Hillforts (Haughey's Fort, co. Navan).
- - - - Ross Island, Killarney & Mount Gabriel.
  - - - Societal organisation on an intensely local scale.
      - Social ranking probs. based on family or kin groups & horizontal differentiation on gender-basis (Cooney, 2000).
- - - - Bishopsland characterised by discovery of soceted axes & tools + gold ornaments.
        Roscommon 👀 v. few bronze finds.
        Dowris phase 👀 considerable no. of new hoards e.g. buckets & cauldrons & bronze trumpets and horns. Gold was plentiful.
        
        Glass bead discoveries suggest amber was also already in use. (O'Kelly).
- - - - Hoards deposited for safety or as votive offerings mostly in "wet sites" e.g. bogs, marshes & lake shores.
      - Defensive landscape
        
        Weaponary development = suggestive of political turbulence (spearheads & swords).
        
        Hilltops were being defended e.g. Rathgall, co. Wicklow.
        
        Industrial manufacturing of weapons in LBA.