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A sediment-based multiproxy palaeoecological approach to the environmental archaeology of lake dwellings (crannogs), central Ireland

Archaeological Services, University of Durham, South Road, Durham DHJ 3LE, UK

Katherine Selby

Zoe Ruiz

Anthony Brown

Mark Dinnin

Geography Department, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK

Chris Caseldine

Geography Department, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK; C.J.Caseldine{at}exeter.ac.uk

Pete Langdon

Geography Department, School of Geography, Archaeology and Earth Resources, University of Exeter, Amory Building, Rennes Drive, Exeter EX4 4RJ, UK

Ingelise Stuijts

Discovery Programme (Ireland), 34, Fitzwilliam Place, Dublin 2, Ireland

A multiproxy study of Ballywillin Crannog, Lough Kinale, central Ireland is presented. The methodology used reveals the wealth of information that a multiproxy approach can contribute in lake settlement studies. Plant macrofossils, pollen and spores, diatoms, chironomids and Coleoptera from a lake core are used to reconstruct local and regional vegetation change and lake history to establish the age and function of the crannog. The palaeoecological evidence suggests that Ballywillin Crannog was constructed around AD 620, with its most intensive period of occupation after AD 11 50. Cereals and a range of gathered fruits and nuts were brought onto and cooked on the crannog, and cereal grains were possibly stored there.

Key Words: Pollen • plant macrofossils • diatoms • chironomids • Coleoptera • crannog • environmental archaeology • late Holocene • Ireland

The Holocene, Vol. 15, No. 5, 707-719 (2005)
DOI: 10.1191/0959683605hl845rp


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