Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscapes of North Mayo: Report 2011

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Fe br ua ry M arc h April May June July Aug ust Sept Oct Nov Dec Work Package One: staffing Student volunteers ‐digitising/processing, fieldsurvey registering grants/contracts Research assistant: provision of illustrations, distribution maps (Four Months, PT) Work Package Two: eco‐fact anaylsis Specialist reports C 14 dating Work Package Three: final chapters Survey: Céide Fields and Belderrig Survey: Rathalackan and area Survey: Pollatomas and area Behy Glenulra Enclosure Céide Fields Visitor Centre Glenula Scatter Soils, Geology etc. History of Research Draft of popular text Work Package Three: dissemination Ongoing Work Package Four: reporting for INSTAR Reporting requirements Figure 1: Indicative work plan for NBNM2011 as presented in initial proposal Work Packages One and Two Five main bodies of work have been carried out in order to support the final production of texts: charcoal analysis (Dr Lorna O’Donnell), non-wood plant macrofossils analysis (Dr Meriel McClatchie), GIS work (Emmett O’Keeffe), the provision of radiocarbon dates and, finally, artefact illustration. Full reports on the first four of these are included here, with illustrations used in the reports as appropriate. - Charcoal Analysis, by Lorna O’Donnell - Plant remains, by Meriel McClatchie - GIS and Spatial Archive, by Emmett O’Keeffe 2
- A summary of the radiocarbon dating programme, by Graeme Warren Work Package Three Substantial drafts of final chapters have been produced for all the areas noted above. Some sections are final and will be made publically available, others will require editing in the context of the final volume as a whole and we would not wish these to be public at this stage. We include all of these drafts here. This includes: - A background to soils and geology, by Graeme Warren - A History of Research in North Mayo, by Seamas Caulfield - Survey work at Céide Fields and Belderrig, by Seamas Caulfield - Survey work at the Glenamoy – Bartnatra Peninsula, by Noel Dunne - Survey work at Ballinglen to Palmerstown River, by Gretta Byrne - Excavations at Behy Court tomb 1963-4 and 1969, by Sean Ó Nualláin, Madeline Murray, and Graeme Warren - Excavations at Glenulra Enclosure 1970-1972, by Seamas Caulfield and Graeme Warren - Excavations associated with the construction of the Céide Fields Visitor Centre 1989-1993, by Gretta Byrne, Noel Dunne and Graeme Warren - Excavations at the Glenulra Scatter, by Gretta Byrne: this now incorporated into the Visitor Centre report. Where a chapter is not ready for publication at this stage a paragraph at the start of the chapter summarises the work required for completion. The four excavation reports are not included here; these have been combined with a further text providing an outline model of chronology for the Céide Hill sub-system. This is ready to be made available to the public as the first synthetic publication of the results of 40 years of archaeological excavations on Céide Hill. Caulfield and Downes continue to work on a draft of popular text. Many of the sections outlined above, especially those by Caulfield, will be used in the more popular account of A Landscape Fossilised. 3
Page 1 and 2: Neolithic and Bronze Age Landscapes
Page 3 and 4: Table of Contents Introduction ....
Page 5 and 6: Scientific Research associated with
Page 7: Introduction This report reviews th
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
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Page 37 and 38: Area A A long length of Neolithic f
Page 39 and 40: piece was 17 years old when cut, ba
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Page 45 and 46: posts burnt in situ. Rather the pos
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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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