New insights into late Holocene farming and woodland dynamics in western Ireland with particular reference to the early medieval horizontal watermill at Kilbegly, Co. Roscommon

Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology

Volumn 163, Issue 3-4, 2011, Pages 205-226

  Overland, Anette ^a   O'Connell, Michael ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

Author keywords

Horizontal watermill; Ireland; Iron Age; Medieval farming; Moss polsters; Pollen analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ARCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE; CONIFEROUS TREE; FOSSIL RECORD; IRON AGE; MEDIEVAL; MIRE; MOSS; MOTORWAY; PALEOECOLOGY; PALYNOLOGY; PEAT; WOODLAND;

CONNACHT; COUNTY ROSCOMMON; IRELAND;

BRYOPHYTA; PINUS SYLVESTRIS; TAXUS; TAXUS BACCATA;

EID: 78650679124     PISSN: 00346667     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.revpalbo.2010.10.008     Document Type: Article

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