The Archaeology of Early Medieval IrelandIn the first major work on the subject for over 30 years, Nancy Edwards provides a critical survey of the archaeological evidence in Ireland (c. 400-1200), introducing material from many recently discovered sites as well as reassessing the importance of earlier excavations. Beginning with an assessment of Roman influence, Dr Edwards then discusses the themse of settlement, food and farming, craft and technology, the church and art, concluding with an appraisal of the Viking impact. The archaeological evidence for the period is also particularly rich and wide-ranging and our knowledge is expanding repidly in the light of modern techniques of survey and excavation. |
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Anglo-Norman Anglo-Saxon Antrim archaeological evidence Armagh artefacts Ballinderry bank bones Book of Kells Britain Bronze Age brooches burial Cahercommaun carved cemetery Christian clocháns Clonmacnois coins construction copper-alloy Cork crannog crosses decorated ditch documentary sources drystone Dublin early medieval Irish ecclesiastical sites eighth century eleventh enamel enclosure example excavation Garranes Garryduff Gospels graves hearth Hencken Hiberno-Norse hoards identified imported pottery indicate Insular interlace Iron Age Island Kells Kerry Knowth Lagore large number late located Louth Lynn major manuscripts Meath metalwork millefiori monasteries motifs Moynagh Lough native ninth Ó Ríordáin O'Kelly objects occupation Offaly ogham ornament palisade penannular brooches period phase pins possible post-holes probably promontory fort radiocarbon date raids rath Rathmullan rectangular ring ring-fort Roman round secular settlement seventh century shrine silver sometimes souterrain souterrain ware structures suggested survive techniques tenth century timbers tion twelfth century Uí Néill Viking wall wooden