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This book investigates the archaeological evidence for crafts and
production in early medieval Ireland, AD 400-1100, with a
particular focus on the extensive excavated evidence from rural
secular and ecclesiastical settlements. The volume firstly provides
an overview of the social and ideological contexts of crafts and
technologies in early Ireland. It then outlines the extant evidence
specifically for iron-working, non-ferrous metalworking, glass,
enamel and millefiori, bone, antler and horn, and stone working,
and characterises each craft practice in terms of scale, outputs
and implications for society. Tables provide additional information
on wood craft and pottery. The book then provides a detailed review
of the use of different materials in dress and ornament, touches on
cloth and textile production, and explores how social identities
were performed through objects and material practices. The book
then provides a voluminous site gazetteer accounting for all
evidence for craft and production on hundreds of early medieval
settlements, with numerous tables of data, site plans, artefact
drawings and photographs and an extensive bibliography. The book is
based on the work of the Early Medieval Archaeology Project (EMAP),
which was funded through the Irish Heritage Council and Department
of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht's INSTAR programme, a
collaborative research project carried out by University College
Dublin and Queens University Belfast which reviewed all
archaeological excavations in Ireland between c.1930-2012. This
particular book, building on EMAP's previous studies of dwellings
and settlements, and agriculture and economy, provides the baseline
for a generation of studies of early medieval crafts and production
in Ireland in its northwest European contexts.
This book describes, collates and analyses the archaeological,
zooarchaeological and palaeobotanical evidence for agriculture,
livestock and cereal production in early medieval Ireland, AD
400-1100, particularly as revealed through archaeological
excavations in Ireland since 1930. It is based on the research of
the Heritage Council-funded Early Medieval Archaeology Project
(EMAP), a collaborative research project between University College
Dublin and Queens University Belfast, supported by the Irish
government Department of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht.
Providing a range of insights into farmsteads and field enclosures,
livestock management (particularly of cattle) and crop cultivation,
along with a series of datasets presented in tables and gazetteer
descriptions, it is arguably amongst the most detailed, focused and
comprehensive analyses of early agricultural practice in its social
and economic contexts in Europe, and the wider world.
This monograph provides a comprehensive synthesis and discussion of
the archaeology of early medieval settlement in Ireland. Drawing on
both published and unpublished material, it sets out an
interpretive, analytical text and a gazetteer of some 241 key early
medieval settlements revealed through archaeological excavations.
Analysis focuses on four major areas: early medieval houses and
other buildings; settlement enclosures; agriculture as part of the
wider settlement landscape; and crafts and industrial activities on
early medieval settlements.
Despite never having been previously published, Ann Hamlin's
pioneering study on the archaeology, architecture and history of
the early church in Northern Ireland, her Phd thesis, has proved
influential, not least for the wealth of information it presents,
and the skill with which it synthesises information from different
disciplines. The work forms a gazetteer of 266 sites related to
early Christianity, many identified for the first time, together
with a discussion section. This considers numbers, distribution and
topography of sites and the different classes of material evidence
(enclosures, churches and other buildings, burials, carved stones,
ballauns, wells, ecclesiastical metalwork and evidence of economy
and technology). It also integrates written and place-name
evidence.
This work is an examination of those environmental and political
factors which have influenced the distribution of settlement types
in northwest Ireland during the Early Christian period (AD
500-1000). Various site types are discussed in Chapter One; the
physical geography and history of the six counties of Northern
Ireland which make up the study area is the subject of Chapters Two
and Three. Cultural remains and written sources, both of which give
insight into how society in general and the individual farm
economies functioned during this period, are discussed in Chapter
Four.
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