Rynne, C. (1992). Early medieval horizontal-wheeled mill penstocks from Co Cork. J Cork Hist Archaeol Soc 97. Vol 97, pp. 54-68.
 Title The title of the publication or report |
Early medieval horizontal-wheeled mill penstocks from Co Cork | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Issue The name of the volume or issue |
J Cork Hist Archaeol Soc 97 | ||||||
Series The series the publication or report is included in |
Journal of the Cork Historical and Archaeological Society | ||||||
Volume Volume number and part |
97 | ||||||
Page Start/End The start and end page numbers. |
54 - 68 | ||||||
Biblio Note This is a Bibliographic record only. |
Please note that this is a bibliographic record only, as originally entered into the BIAB database. The ADS have no files for download, and unfortunately cannot advise further on where to access hard copy or digital versions. | ||||||
Publication Type The type of publication - report, monograph, journal article or chapter from a book |
Journal | ||||||
Abstract The abstract describing the content of the publication or report |
Describes the technology, manufacture and dating evidence of wooden penstocks (chutes which formed the water jet) from mills in Co Cork. After the mill-wheel, the penstock is both the most diagnostic and the most common component found. The two-basic types of penstock that have been found in the county are described. A rectangular type has been dated by 14C and dendrochronology to between the eight and tenth centuries, while an oval type (which exists only on one site) dates to c~AD~630. Co Cork has more pre-tenth-century horizontal-wheeled water-mill sites than the rest of Europe, while no wooden early medieval penstocks have yet been studied outside Ireland. Evidence for an eastern Mediterranean origin is suggested by the morphology of both the penstock and the mill-wheel, while tidemills are paralleled only by sites along the coasts of France, Spain and Portugal. The Co Cork penstocks are the earliest known of the steeply-inclined form typical of the traditional horizontal-wheeled mills of Eurasia which had developed by the early medieval period. The evidence for penstock support beams and double penstock mills is also assessed. | ||||||
Year of Publication The year the book, article or report was published |
1992 | ||||||
Locations Any locations covered by the publication or report. This is not the place the book or report was published. |
|
||||||
Source Where the record has come from or which dataset it was orginally included in. |
BIAB
(The British Archaeological Bibliography (BAB))
|
||||||
Created Date The date the record of the pubication was first entered |
20 Jan 2002 |
