Materialising Power: The archaeology of the Black Pig's Dyke, Co. Monaghan

This richly illustrated book offers a fresh perspective on linear earthworks, perhaps the most enigmatic and neglected of all of Ireland’s prehistoric field monuments.

Focusing on one of the best—preserved and largest examples of the monument type in Europe, the renowned Black Pig’s Dyke in County Monaghan — named from a folk—tale that describes how the earthworks were torn into the landscape by the angry marauding of a giant mythical schoolteacher—turned—pig — the authors integrate the resu...