Culleenamore Middens
The Culleenamore Middens are Køkkenmøddinger ; ("Prehistoric kitchen garbage heap") on the north bank of Ballysadare Bay, west of Mount Knocknarea , one kilometer south of Strandhill in the townland of Culleenamore ( Irish Coillín na mBodhar "grove of pigeons") in County Sligo in Ireland .
It's the heaped up remains of mussels and shellfish. The marine resources on the south side of the Coolera Peninsula ( Cúil Iorra ) have been an important source of food since the settlement of Ireland after the Ice Age , especially for the Mesolithic people, but also later. One of the largest seal colonies in Ireland can be seen off Culleenamore .
Some waste mounds are 100 m long, 20 m wide and five meters high. Shells, which come almost exclusively from mussels, are evidence of rich resources. A very large laterally eroded hill allows glimpses of the stratification. Periwinkle shells and clam shells can be identified, with those of oysters being by far the most common. Ashes and charcoal in the upper sediment discovered during an excavation are signs of hearths. The bones of domestic animals and deer, with fragments of antlers, were also found here. Flint , pottery shards , bronze and iron prove that the square was used from the Neolithic to the Iron Age .
See also
literature
- Geoffrey Bibby hand ax and bronze sword. Research into the early days of the European north , Rowohlt- Sachbuch, Hamburg, 1972
- N. Milner: Oysters, cockles and kitchenmiddens: Changing practices at the Mesolithic / Neolithic transition in P. Miracle and N. Milner (Eds.): Consuming Passions and Patterns of Consumption . Mac Donald Institute, Cambridge 2002
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Coordinates: 54 ° 15 ′ 17.8 " N , 8 ° 35 ′ 51" W.