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Emania 8
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Emania
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8
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1991
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Date Of Issue From: 1991
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20 Jan 2002
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Recent air survey results from Navan
Barrie Hartwell
5 - 9
Report of a 1989 air survey during exceptionally dry weather conditions which covered a six kilometre square area. Results included further ditches on Haughey's Fort, a linear feature which proceeds towards Tray Bog and three groups of ring ditches. Includes appendices on `Gazetteer of sites' (8) and `Site locations' (9).
Excavations at Haughey's Fort: 1989-1990
J P Mallory
10 - 26
Results of the 1989-90 excavations include the discovery that, at eight hectares, Haughey's Fort is in fact larger than Navan Fort and that it is a trivallate structure. Internal features include unaligned stake holes, stockade fences, at least thirteen large pits and several shallow pits. Finds include Late Bronze Age pottery, small fragments of gold including one gold stud, three fragments of corroded iron which may have been a strap handle, several copper alloy objects including three rings, fragments of lignite bracelet and similar necklace, a decorated sandstone piece and saddle querns, a boar's tooth necklace, some worked timber objects and also environmental evidence.
The animal bones from Haughey's Fort: second report
Finbar McCormick
27 - 33
The animal bone assemblage indicated a cattle based economy with some pig and very few sheep/goats. The 1987 investigations also discovered the largest pre- to early-historic dog skull in the British Isles. A lack of diagnostic mandibulae make it difficult to say whether the cattle were used for dairying or stockrearing. The appendices give a `Summary of cattle measurements (in mm) based on appendix two' (32), `Cattle measurements from Haughey's Fort' (32), `Summary of pig measurements (in mm) based on appendix four. It does not include wild pig (Sus scrofa) measurements' (33), `Pig measurements (in mm)' (33), `Dog measurements (in mm)' (33) and `Red deer measurements' (33).
A preliminary analysis of wood remains from Haughey's Fort
Mark Hawthorne
34 - 38
Approximately 135 kg of waterlogged wood was recovered in the 1989 excavation. Species present include elder, wild cherry, blackthorn, ash, oak, hazel, alder, willow, hawthorn, birch and gorse. There are indications of hazel coppicing, although nothing to confirm that it was being formally organised.
A dendro-date from Haughey's Fort?
Mike G L Baillie
David M Brown
39 - 40
Analysis of a piece of oak, sample Q7971, gave a felling date between 1150-1116 BC which may indicate activity at or around the site contemporary or succeeding the period of the Hekla three volcanic eruption on Iceland.
A burnt layer beside the King's Stables
Christopher Lynn
41 - 42
Radiocarbon dating produced a figure of 1151±25 BP (777-981 ad) putting it in the Early Christian period.
The Drumconwell Ogham and its implications
R B Warner
43 - 50
The ogham stone from Drumconwell, which itself means `ridge of Conmáel', also bears reference to the name Conmáel. This raises the question of how this location became associated with what must at least in part be intended as a reference to the mythical Conmáel mac Ebir. However, it is difficult to ascertain how and when such traditions of association arise.
Knockaulin (Dún Ailinne) and Navan: some architectural comparisons
Christopher Lynn
51 - 56
A comparison of two Early Iron Age structures that are similar in size, shape and location, being fairly large, hilltop sites surrounded by circular earthworks (see also 90/1338 and 89/1260).
Evidence of dairying at Dún Ailinne?
Finbar McCormick
57 - 59
The animal bone assemblage from this site included a large percentage of calves slaughtered around six months of age which was interpreted as evidence of a dairying economy (see also 90/1338). The assumption was that calves and people were in competition for milk. Elements of documentary evidence for dairy farming are often cited in support of this. However, that same documentary evidence in fact frequently states that, whilst dairying was common, it was also known that a cow would not continue to give milk without her calf. In the light of this, other Early Christian evidence is examined which backs up the idea that in a dairying economy of that era few calf bones should be found.