Fine-Tuned Chronology of Medieval Fishweirs on the Fergus Estuary, Co. Clare, Ireland

Abstract

Abstract At the spring tides, during the summer of 2011, a team from the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, made several research trips to a complex of medieval fishweirs at a location close to Boarland Rock on the Fergus estuary, Co. Clare, Ireland (Excavation license no. 09E0358). The purpose of these visits was to obtain samples of wood from two of the structures, to carry out chronological studies. Through detailed examination of these structures, the aim was to refine approaches to chronological questions so that we might further understand their construction and use history along the River Fergus. Funded through a Marie Curie Intra-European Fellowship (IEF) and based at the School of Archaeology, University College Dublin, the project was concerned with the precise dating of timber and wood from archaeological contexts.