Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscapes of North Mayo: Report 2011

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Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscapes of North Mayo: 2011 Report Seamas Caulfield, Gretta Byrne, Noel Dunne and Graeme Warren (eds) And reports from Meriel McClatchie, Emmett O’Keeffe and Helen Roche Not for public circulation December 2011 i
Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................... 1 Work Packages One and Two ................................................................................................................. 2 Work Package Three ............................................................................................................................... 3 Part One: Specialist Reports Creating Digital Archaeological Landscapes: An archaeological GIS for the NBNM project, by Emmett O’Keeffe. ............................................................. 5 Introduction ............................................................................................................................................ 5 Aims ........................................................................................................................................................ 5 Datasets .................................................................................................................................................. 6 Results ..................................................................................................................................................... 7 Outputs ................................................................................................................................................. 12 Radiocarbon Dating ..................................................................................... 13 Charcoal analysis from Neolithic and Bronze Age landscapes of North Mayo, by Lorna O’Donnell ...................................................................................... 21 Introduction .......................................................................................................................................... 21 Sampling strategy.................................................................................................................................. 21 Methodology ......................................................................................................................................... 21 Results ................................................................................................................................................... 23 Glenulra enclosure E24 Middle Neolithic ............................................................................................. 24 Glenulra Scatter 92E140 Middle Neolithic ............................................................................................ 25 Céide Visitor Centre (E494) Late Neolithic/Early Bronze Age ............................................................... 26 Belderg Beg E109 Early/Middle Bronze Age ......................................................................................... 28 Rathlackan E580 Early/Middle Neolithic to Early Bronze Age. ............................................................. 36 ii
Page 1: Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscapes
Page 5 and 6: Scientific Research associated with
Page 7 and 8: Introduction This report reviews th
Page 9 and 10: - A summary of the radiocarbon dati
Page 11 and 12: Creating Digital Archaeological Lan
Page 13 and 14: Figure 2: Data Model for NBNM GIS R
Page 15 and 16: Figure 4: example of outputs at Cé
Page 17 and 18: Rathlackan As a result of a lack of
Page 19 and 20: Radiocarbon Dating A further tranch
Page 21 and 22: RATHLACKAN Lab Number F no S. No Co
Page 23 and 24: GLENULRA ENCLOSURE Notes Cal BC (95
Page 25 and 26: Lab Code Cutting Sample Material AR
Page 27 and 28: Charcoal analysis from Neolithic an
Page 29 and 30: Results Overall charcoal 83 samples
Page 31 and 32: Glenulra Scatter 92E140 Middle Neol
Page 33 and 34: Oak and birch were recorded from Cu
Page 35 and 36: 35 30 no of samples 25 20 15 10 5 0
Page 37 and 38: Area A A long length of Neolithic f
Page 39 and 40: piece was 17 years old when cut, ba
Page 41 and 42: elating to midden B2P and from five
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Page 45 and 46: posts burnt in situ. Rather the pos
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References Byrne, G., Warren, G., W
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Verrill, L. and Tipping, R. 2010. U
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Table 3 Charcoal identifications fr
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Sample Date Ctg Context Description
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Sample Date Ctg Context Description
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Sample Trench Time period Descripti
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Table 7 Wood identification details
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Table 8 Charcoal identifications fr
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Cutting Sample Date Feature Descrip
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Table 8 Sample assessment Rathlacka
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Phase F. S. Trench Deposit type Loc
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Behy-Glenulra: Céide Fields visito
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A possible midden (B2P) contained a
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Wild remains Hazelnut shell fragmen
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References Beijerinck, W. 1947. Zad
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Verrill, L. and Tipping, R. 2010. A
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Soils and Geology Graeme Warren Thi
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Figure 3: overview of geological fe
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distinctive deposits and landscape
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Figure 4: major landuse categories.
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References ?? Soil Map of West Mayo
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The first scientific paper on late
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Also in the summer of 1963, fifty k
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the earth for the bank coming from
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dates from the macrofossil remains
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New Research and Researchers Over t
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Probed Surveys: Erris, Céide Field
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Iron probes of varying lengths had
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Céide hill twenty five years earli
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Survey on the Glenamoy - Bartnatra
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Bungurra River drains the Knocknalo
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The elevation of the tombs, all sit
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In 1936, 2 sub-rectangular cists, C
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Dooncarton Southwest slope 3.15 km
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The cross-section area occupied by
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No upper boundary was located on Kn
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The third house site, H3, on Gortme
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The 2 court tombs, Ma38 and Ma23, l
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This void is substantiated by exami
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Survey from Ballinglen to Rathfran
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Lissadrone basin. The peat cover is
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Two similar large round cairns are
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Wall Gaps Because of concealment an
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supported by an orthostat visible u
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and with different building techniq
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Survey Illustrations: Figure 1: Ove
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Figure 4: Seefin walls with associa
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Figure 7: Walls from the study area
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Figure 8: Cabintown Site A. 161
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Figure 11: Rathlackan sites H12 Fig
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Figure 15: Creevagh H5, Figure 16:
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Figure 19: Carrowkibbock Upper H20.
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