Bibliography
Christina
Fredengren
Works authored
Fredengren, Christina, Annaba Kilfeather, and Ingelise Stuijts, Lough Kinale: studies of an Irish lake, Discovery Programme Monograph, 8, Dublin: Wordwell, 2010.
abstract:
This book is the result of one module of the Discovery Programme’s Lake Settlement Project. The study examined the archaeology of Lough Kinale from the Mesolithic to the present. Lake archaeology is an under-studied aspect of Irish archaeology and this book is designed to contribute to a better understanding of that topic.Lough Kinale was selected for study because a soft-bed lake was likely to provide good environmental information. A general review of the material from Lough Kinale showed that distinct human indicators existed for the Mesolithic period, the early medieval period and later. There was also potential for examining the question of the construction in the Mesolithic of man-made islands. This is one of the outstanding questions in lake settlement research and might explain the context of many of the late Mesolithic artefacts found on lakeshores in different parts of Ireland. Other issues that could be addressed at Lough Kinale included the building and use of larger high-cairn crannogs in proximity to each other. There are three large crannogs here, two of which have yielded rich artefact material. Were they in use at the same time and what was their social meaning?
abstract:
This book is the result of one module of the Discovery Programme’s Lake Settlement Project. The study examined the archaeology of Lough Kinale from the Mesolithic to the present. Lake archaeology is an under-studied aspect of Irish archaeology and this book is designed to contribute to a better understanding of that topic.Lough Kinale was selected for study because a soft-bed lake was likely to provide good environmental information. A general review of the material from Lough Kinale showed that distinct human indicators existed for the Mesolithic period, the early medieval period and later. There was also potential for examining the question of the construction in the Mesolithic of man-made islands. This is one of the outstanding questions in lake settlement research and might explain the context of many of the late Mesolithic artefacts found on lakeshores in different parts of Ireland. Other issues that could be addressed at Lough Kinale included the building and use of larger high-cairn crannogs in proximity to each other. There are three large crannogs here, two of which have yielded rich artefact material. Were they in use at the same time and what was their social meaning?
Contributions to journals
Fredengren, Christina, Meriel McClatchie, and Ingelise Stuijts, “Connections and distance: investigating social and agricultural issues relating to early medieval crannogs in Ireland”, Environmental Archaeology 9:2 (2004): 173–178.
abstract:
This paper considers approaches to the study of Early Medieval crannogs in Ireland, focussing particularly on social and agricultural issues. The architecture of crannogs suggests an act of isolation, perhaps representing an Early Medieval ideology, while their material assemblages demonstrate that people in their practical lives would have depended on others to varying extents. Previously held hypotheses concerning the association of crannogs exclusively with higher-status social groups are challenged in this paper. The perceived dominance of animal husbandry in many archaeological texts is also questioned. The diverse roles of arable agricultural products in Early Medieval society are then explored, with the use of contemporary documentary sources, in order to investigate issues beyond economic concerns. Our excavation of a crannog at Sroove in Lough Cara, Co. Sligo, provides a case study with which we can reconsider approaches to the study of crannogs in Ireland.
abstract:
This paper considers approaches to the study of Early Medieval crannogs in Ireland, focussing particularly on social and agricultural issues. The architecture of crannogs suggests an act of isolation, perhaps representing an Early Medieval ideology, while their material assemblages demonstrate that people in their practical lives would have depended on others to varying extents. Previously held hypotheses concerning the association of crannogs exclusively with higher-status social groups are challenged in this paper. The perceived dominance of animal husbandry in many archaeological texts is also questioned. The diverse roles of arable agricultural products in Early Medieval society are then explored, with the use of contemporary documentary sources, in order to investigate issues beyond economic concerns. Our excavation of a crannog at Sroove in Lough Cara, Co. Sligo, provides a case study with which we can reconsider approaches to the study of crannogs in Ireland.
