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<< Other Photo Pages >> Fanmore Midden - Ancient Village or Settlement in Ireland (Republic of) in Co. Clare

Submitted by bat400 on Monday, 17 June 2013  Page Views: 4880

Multi-periodSite Name: Fanmore Midden
Country: Ireland (Republic of) County: Co. Clare Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
 Nearest Village: Fanmore More
Latitude: 53.120000N  Longitude: 9.29W
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Fanmore Midden
Fanmore Midden submitted by Creative Commons : The beach at Fanore Copyright David Medcalf and licensed for reuse under this Creative Commons Licence. (Vote or comment on this photo)
High tides exposed this shellfish midden in north Clare October 2008. Radiocarbon dating revealed it to be at least 6,000 years old. The midden - a cooking area where nomad hunter-gatherers boiled or roasted shellfish - contained Stone Age implements, including two axes and a number of smaller stone tools.

A rescue excavation was performed during September and early October 2009.
One of the two trenches dug showed a black organic layer covered a deposit of burnt and shattered stone beneath quantities of sand and stone . A stone axe was found in this secure context along with some chert flakes and debitage.

Post-excavation analysis to include a specialist report on the lithics.

Source: Michael Lynch, "Clare, 2009:093, FANORE MORE, Shell midden, 09E400." Report at excavations.ie.

Note: 6,000-year-old settlement poses tsunami mystery in County Clare, Ireland. See comment.
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6,000-year-old settlement poses tsunami mystery by bat400 on Monday, 17 June 2013
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Archeologists have uncovered evidence of pre-farming people living in the Burren more than 6,000 years ago — one of the oldest habitations ever unearthed in Ireland. Radiocarbon dating of a shellfish midden on Fanore Beach in north Clare have revealed it to be at least 6,000 years old — hundreds of years older than the nearby Poulnabrone dolmen.

The midden — a cooking area where nomad hunter-gatherers boiled or roasted shellfish — contained Stone Age implements, including two axes and a number of smaller stone tools. Excavation of the site revealed a mysterious black layer of organic material, which archeologists believe may be the results of a Stone Age tsunami which hit the Clare coast, possibly wiping out the people who used the midden.

A major excavation of the site is being led by Michael Lynch, field monument adviser for Co Clare.
"This is the oldest settlement in Clare," said Mr Lynch. "We have always thought hunter-gatherers existed in Clare but this is the first real evidence of that.
"These people were pre-farming. Farming would have been introduced a few generations later and these farmers built monuments like the dolmen.

"These people would have come to certain places at certain times of the year. Obviously they came here to eat shellfish, but possibly they had another place beside a river nearby for when they wanted to catch salmon and trout, and at other times they would have collected things like hazel nuts.

"We know that they were cooking and eating shellfish here, but we don’t know yet exactly what method they were using to cook it. So hopefully that is one of the things we can uncover in the weeks ahead."

The archaeologists are also hoping to establish the make-up of a mysterious substance found during the excavation.

The substance, which is two or three inches deep, disintegrates when it comes in contact with air. A large slab of the material has remained intact on an ancient settlement, indicating that a large amount of it was laid down at once, possibly as the result of a tsunami.

Thanks to neolithique02 for the link. Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com.
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