CONTENTS

KATHARINA BECKER Editorial v MARION DOWD, THORSTEN KAHLERT AND CATRIONA MCKENZIE The role of caves in complex Neolithic funerary rituals on Knocknarea Mountain, Co. Sligo, 1 Ireland BRIAN G. SCOTT Some notes on horse-riding in the Irish Later Bronze Age 17 MARK GARDINER, WILLIAM P. MEGARRY AND GILL PLUNKETT A Late Bronze Age field system and settlement on the Antrim Plateau: preliminary results 49 TIM BOWMER Rectilinear drystone cashel and enclosure settlements in the Burren, Co. Clare 59 THOMAS TALBOT Religious change in a royal landscape: Domnach Mór Maige Áine and Mullach Cé, Co. Limerick 85 JOHN SHEEHAN AND MAEVE SIKORA Lurgabrack, Co. Donegal: a Viking Age hoard of Scoto-Scandinavian silver 103 TADHG O’KEEFFE Feudal power in a Gaelic world? Contextualising the encastellation of pre-Norman Ireland 119 NIAMH CURTIN Pottery production in twelfth–fifteenth-century Ireland as an indicator of cultural, social and 139 economic relationships CHRISTINE BAKER Planning for archaeology 161

BOOK REVIEWS 177 Design and connectivity: the case of Atlantic rock art, reviewed by Kerri Cleary The archaeology of Lough Gur, reviewed by Richard O’Brien Lost and found III: rediscovering more of Ireland’s past, reviewed by Franc Myles The archaeology of prehistoric burnt mounds in Ireland, reviewed by Jerry O’Sullivan