A canon for the Bronze Age? 
Anna Brindley (University of Groningen)
BRONZE AGE REVIEW: VOL. 1, NOVEMBER (2008)
Abstract
An invitation to contribute to an agenda to inspire innovative research projects, targeted excavations and new collaborations which is aimed at academics, students, archaeological units and foreign scholars is a very pleasant invitation indeed to receive! It is also nice to be able to nominate a favourite research project that remains unpublished.
This particular contribution is made from an outside perspective, that of the foreign academic, student and scholar. I am an Irish archaeologist who has lived for many years in the Netherlands. My interests in the British Bronze Age are based on the geographical position of Ireland relevant to Britain and my wish list is predicated on this. My work is data-based and artefactual.
My main interests are in pottery and in the application of radiocarbon dating to specific problems. As an archaeologist I have viewed British material from east and west and in various contexts while working on both Irish and Dutch material. In this instance my comments are made on the basis of recent work that I have carried out in Ireland (Brindley 2007). Because of the geographical position of Ireland, most discussions of Irish material must take some cognisance of British material, even if only because continental ideas and chronology are sometimes received through the filter of that landmass.
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