Caroline Earwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 382359 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Caroline Earwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Caroline |
| FAMILY NAME | Earwood |
| SIGNATURE | EARWOOD C |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chestnut Hill College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 8 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1991 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Sequence of Early Christian Period Horizontal Tide Mills at Nendrum Monastery: An Interim Statement
A Neolithic Wetland Site at Abercynafon, Talybont, South Wales
This paper presents the results of an integrated archaeological and palaeoecological investigation following the discovery of waterlogged worked-wood in a small boggy hollow on the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons in south Wales. Analysis of the pollen, radiocarbon and dendrochronological evidence suggests the main phase of activity at the site involved local clearance of the primary oak forest in the early 3rd millennium BC. Later activity at…
An Assessment of the Impact of Trees upon Archaeology Within a Relict Wetland
Typology of Bronze Age wooden containers: New dating evidence from Islay
Discusses finds made in the 1960s which are now housed in the Museum of Islay Life, in particular, a two-piece grooved tub from Allt Garadh Ealabais which produced a radiocarbon date of 1400--1090 BC thus making it one of the earliest known examples of its kind from Britain or Ireland
Trees and Folk Medicine
Trees are usually considered of importance in terms of their timber. This is especially true today when forestry is often a highly commercialised enterprise for the production of timber alone. However in the past trees had a far wider economic and social significance, supplying local communities with raw material including bark for tanning and plaiting, bast and roots for weaving and ropes, leaves and branches for bedding and fodder, sap for drin…
Primitive Ropemaking: The Archaeological and Ethnographic Evidence
Before the widespread use of flax and hemp, other material had to be utilized to make rope. Although hair is known to have been used, plant fibres provided the main source with wood being the most important. Detailed knowledge of the methods of preparation of wood rope have been recorded in recent times in eastern and northern Europe but the use of wood rope is of great antiquity with examples, from sites in central Europe and the Baltic, dating …
Field survey and excavation of two linear wooden features at Hooper’s Ground, Westhay Heath, Somerset, 1992
While much is known of prehistoric exploitation of the Somerset Levels and Moors,1 extensive peat extraction across the Moors since the early post-medieval period has effectively removed most of the historic peats and consequently much the archaeology of the later periods. It is now believed that peat was continuing to form in the area until the end of the first millennium AD,2 and though little is known, medieval and post-medieval features will …
A wooden bowl from Loch a 'Ghlinne Bhig, Bracadale, Skye
This wooden bowl is described and compared with the bowl from Talisker, Skye (84/222). Both are similar in design and technology and radiocarbon dates place their manufacture sometime in the first to second centuries AD. Comparisons are also made with other wooden vessels from Scotland and Ireland
The dating of wooden troughs and dishes
Topological links between wooden artefacts and those made from stone, pottery and metal facilitate the dating of some distinctive styles of wooden container. However, radiocarbon is in many cases the only method of dating those wooden troughs and dishes that are typologically indistinct. This paper reports on the radiocarbon dating of a number of wooden vessels from Scotland
Ethnography in Eastern Europe: Peasant Crafts
Recent political changes in eastern Europe have allowed a growing exchange of ideas between scholars in the former communist-run countries and their counterparts in Britain. This has been actively encouraged by the free movement of people, now limited only by funding constraints, facilitating visits by eastern Europeans to museums and conferences in this country and return trips by western scholars to work in museums and institutes of archaeology…
The medieval town of David-gorod, Belarus
David-gorod, now in the state of Belarus, is an ancient wood-built settlement in eastern Europe, where astounding preservation of timber buildings, streets and objects gives us a full and organic view of its medieval world. The finds from excavations in 1937-8, conducted by the Państwowe Muzeum Archeologiczne, Warsaw, are at last being published - metal, glass, pottery, leather, bone, stone, textile, along with the wood. The town was an important…
Two Early Historic bog butter containers
The first radiocarbon dates for bog butter were recently obtained from the contents of two wooden kegs found at Morven, Argyllshire, and Kyleakin, Skye. The dates cover the mid second to mid fourth centuries AD confirming suggestions that burial of bog butter was not exclusively a late medieval practice. The woodworking techniques used in making bog butter kegs from Scotland are varied and include methods used before the introduction of cooperage…
The wooden artefacts from Loch Glashan crannog, Mid Argyll
Excavations in 1960 led to the discovery of a large number of wooden artefacts. These include a diverse range of containers, pegs, pins, spatulae, handles, and tools as well as parts of structures and other worked wood. The material, which has remained largely unpublished, provides an insight into domestic life in Scotland in the sixth/eighth centuries AD as well as further information on both contemporary woodworking techniques and the movement …
An Assessment of the Impact of Trees upon Archaeology Within a Relict Wetland
Two Early Historic bog butter containers
The first radiocarbon dates for bog butter were recently obtained from the contents of two wooden kegs found at Morven, Argyllshire, and Kyleakin, Skye. The dates cover the mid second to mid fourth centuries AD confirming suggestions that burial of bog butter was not exclusively a late medieval practice. The woodworking techniques used in making bog butter kegs from Scotland are varied and include methods used before the introduction of cooperage…
Primitive Ropemaking: The Archaeological and Ethnographic Evidence
Before the widespread use of flax and hemp, other material had to be utilized to make rope. Although hair is known to have been used, plant fibres provided the main source with wood being the most important. Detailed knowledge of the methods of preparation of wood rope have been recorded in recent times in eastern and northern Europe but the use of wood rope is of great antiquity with examples, from sites in central Europe and the Baltic, dating …
The dating of wooden troughs and dishes
Topological links between wooden artefacts and those made from stone, pottery and metal facilitate the dating of some distinctive styles of wooden container. However, radiocarbon is in many cases the only method of dating those wooden troughs and dishes that are typologically indistinct. This paper reports on the radiocarbon dating of a number of wooden vessels from Scotland
Ethnography in Eastern Europe: Peasant Crafts
Recent political changes in eastern Europe have allowed a growing exchange of ideas between scholars in the former communist-run countries and their counterparts in Britain. This has been actively encouraged by the free movement of people, now limited only by funding constraints, facilitating visits by eastern Europeans to museums and conferences in this country and return trips by western scholars to work in museums and institutes of archaeology…
The medieval town of David-gorod, Belarus
David-gorod, now in the state of Belarus, is an ancient wood-built settlement in eastern Europe, where astounding preservation of timber buildings, streets and objects gives us a full and organic view of its medieval world. The finds from excavations in 1937-8, conducted by the Państwowe Muzeum Archeologiczne, Warsaw, are at last being published - metal, glass, pottery, leather, bone, stone, textile, along with the wood. The town was an important…
The wooden artefacts from Loch Glashan crannog, Mid Argyll
Excavations in 1960 led to the discovery of a large number of wooden artefacts. These include a diverse range of containers, pegs, pins, spatulae, handles, and tools as well as parts of structures and other worked wood. The material, which has remained largely unpublished, provides an insight into domestic life in Scotland in the sixth/eighth centuries AD as well as further information on both contemporary woodworking techniques and the movement …
Two Early Historic bog butter containers
The first radiocarbon dates for bog butter were recently obtained from the contents of two wooden kegs found at Morven, Argyllshire, and Kyleakin, Skye. The dates cover the mid second to mid fourth centuries AD confirming suggestions that burial of bog butter was not exclusively a late medieval practice. The woodworking techniques used in making bog butter kegs from Scotland are varied and include methods used before the introduction of cooperage…
Ethnography in Eastern Europe: Peasant Crafts
Recent political changes in eastern Europe have allowed a growing exchange of ideas between scholars in the former communist-run countries and their counterparts in Britain. This has been actively encouraged by the free movement of people, now limited only by funding constraints, facilitating visits by eastern Europeans to museums and conferences in this country and return trips by western scholars to work in museums and institutes of archaeology…
The medieval town of David-gorod, Belarus
David-gorod, now in the state of Belarus, is an ancient wood-built settlement in eastern Europe, where astounding preservation of timber buildings, streets and objects gives us a full and organic view of its medieval world. The finds from excavations in 1937-8, conducted by the Państwowe Muzeum Archeologiczne, Warsaw, are at last being published - metal, glass, pottery, leather, bone, stone, textile, along with the wood. The town was an important…
A wooden bowl from Loch a 'Ghlinne Bhig, Bracadale, Skye
This wooden bowl is described and compared with the bowl from Talisker, Skye (84/222). Both are similar in design and technology and radiocarbon dates place their manufacture sometime in the first to second centuries AD. Comparisons are also made with other wooden vessels from Scotland and Ireland
The dating of wooden troughs and dishes
Topological links between wooden artefacts and those made from stone, pottery and metal facilitate the dating of some distinctive styles of wooden container. However, radiocarbon is in many cases the only method of dating those wooden troughs and dishes that are typologically indistinct. This paper reports on the radiocarbon dating of a number of wooden vessels from Scotland
Field survey and excavation of two linear wooden features at Hooper’s Ground, Westhay Heath, Somerset, 1992
While much is known of prehistoric exploitation of the Somerset Levels and Moors,1 extensive peat extraction across the Moors since the early post-medieval period has effectively removed most of the historic peats and consequently much the archaeology of the later periods. It is now believed that peat was continuing to form in the area until the end of the first millennium AD,2 and though little is known, medieval and post-medieval features will …
Primitive Ropemaking: The Archaeological and Ethnographic Evidence
Before the widespread use of flax and hemp, other material had to be utilized to make rope. Although hair is known to have been used, plant fibres provided the main source with wood being the most important. Detailed knowledge of the methods of preparation of wood rope have been recorded in recent times in eastern and northern Europe but the use of wood rope is of great antiquity with examples, from sites in central Europe and the Baltic, dating …
Typology of Bronze Age wooden containers: New dating evidence from Islay
Discusses finds made in the 1960s which are now housed in the Museum of Islay Life, in particular, a two-piece grooved tub from Allt Garadh Ealabais which produced a radiocarbon date of 1400--1090 BC thus making it one of the earliest known examples of its kind from Britain or Ireland
Trees and Folk Medicine
Trees are usually considered of importance in terms of their timber. This is especially true today when forestry is often a highly commercialised enterprise for the production of timber alone. However in the past trees had a far wider economic and social significance, supplying local communities with raw material including bark for tanning and plaiting, bast and roots for weaving and ropes, leaves and branches for bedding and fodder, sap for drin…
An Assessment of the Impact of Trees upon Archaeology Within a Relict Wetland
A Neolithic Wetland Site at Abercynafon, Talybont, South Wales
This paper presents the results of an integrated archaeological and palaeoecological investigation following the discovery of waterlogged worked-wood in a small boggy hollow on the southern edge of the Brecon Beacons in south Wales. Analysis of the pollen, radiocarbon and dendrochronological evidence suggests the main phase of activity at the site involved local clearance of the primary oak forest in the early 3rd millennium BC. Later activity at…
The Sequence of Early Christian Period Horizontal Tide Mills at Nendrum Monastery: An Interim Statement
Archaeology (12 works) · Geography (11 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (9 works) · Historical Studies of British Isles (6 works) · History (6 works) · Excavation (5 works) · Geology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology (5 works) · Radiocarbon dating (5 works)