Late Iron Age and "Roman" Ireland

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Since its inception in 1991 the Discovery Programme has championed the use of innovative methods, applied scientific approaches and new technologies in archaeological research in Ireland. The Late Iron Age and 'Roman' Ireland (LIARI) Project was started by the Discovery Programme in 2011 and this report outlines the results of the initial eighteen-month period of research up to March 2013. The overview of the aims, objectives and methodology highlights the importance of collaborative interdisciplinary partnerships, the underpinning framework of which has become synonymous with research completed for the Discovery Programme. Divided into a series of interrelated chapters, the report outlines investigations from the late Iron Age through the Roman period and into the beginning of the early medieval period in Ireland informed by evidence from Britain and the Continent. A priority for the investigations in this initial period was the collation of all existing data, published and unpublished, from over fifteen years of recent excavations throughout Ireland. PREFACE AND LIST OF DIRECTORATE vi RÉAMHRÁ viii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS x LIST OF FIGURES AND LIST OF TABLES xi ABBREVIATIONS xv 1. The LIARI Project: aims, methodology and collaborative research / Jacqueline Cahill Wilson, Ger Dowling and Michael Ann Bevivino 1 2. Romans and Roman material in Ireland: a wider social perspective / Jacqueline Cahill Wilson 11 3. Geophysical investigations at Drumanagh and Loughshinny, north County Dublin / Ger Dowling 59 4. Investigations on Lambay, Co. Dublin / Jacqueline Cahill Wilson, Gabriel Cooney, Ger Dowling and Ian Elliott 91 5. Reflections on a lake: a multi-proxy study of environmental change and human impacts at Lough Lugh, Uisneach, Co. Westmeath / Roseanne Schot, Ingelise Stuijts, Seamus McGinley and Aaron Potito 113 6. Investigating mobility and migration in the later Irish Iron Age / Jacqueline Cahill Wilson, Christopher Standish and Elizabeth O’Brien 127 7. Landscape and settlement in late Iron Age Ireland: some emerging trends / Ger Dowling 151 8. Findings and priorities for future research / Jacqueline Cahill Wilson 175 Bibliography 185 Index 208