Ferriter's Cove
| Ferriter's Cove Cuan on Chaoil |
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 View over Ferriter's Cove |
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| Waters | Atlantic Ocean | |
| Land mass | Dingle Peninsula | |
| Geographical location | 52 ° 10 '27 " N , 10 ° 26' 48" W | |
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| width | approx. 500 m | |
| depth | approx. 1 km | |
Ferriter's Cove ( Irish Cuan an Chaoil ) is a small bay in the west of the Dingle Peninsula in County Kerry in Ireland .
Excavations carried out by Peter C. Woodman (1943–2017) at the end of the 20th century have revealed evidence that people lived there during the Mesolithic period . They were based on a discovery of a flint knife from the Neolithic period by an amateur archaeologist in 1983 . Woodman's team found equipment that dated the site to the late Mesolithic. This included a grindstone , marked sandstone pebbles , Køkkenmøddinger ( English Shell middens ), fire pits and five stone axes that were clumped together, presumably to hide them.
See also
literature
- Peter C. Woodman, Elizabeth Anderson, Nyree Finlay: Excavations at Ferriter's Cove, 1983-95: last foragers, first farmers in the Dingle Peninsula (Bray, Co. Wicklow). Wordwell, Dublin 1999, ISBN 9781869857332