Moynagh Lough

Studies 1

Michael Potterton, editor

Foreword
Virginia Teehan

PART I: INTRODUCTION 

Introduction: returning to Moynagh Lough
Michael Potterton

PART II: CONTEXTUALISING MOYNAGH LOUGH

Loch Dé Muindech briefly revisited 
Edel Bhreathnach 

Moynagh Lough and its wider landscape setting 
Niall Brady

International trade and exchange at Moynagh Lough 
Maximilien Agnes

Housing crisis: real and poetic uses of Moynagh Lough 
Thomas Herron

Moynagh Lough and Nobber Heritage Centre 
Henry Cruise

PART III: A HIVE OF INDUSTRY

Craft island?: results to date from the Moynagh Lough Non-Ferrous Metalworking Research Project 
Brendan O’Neill

An investigation of pinched crucibles from Moynagh Lough 
Averil White

The leather finds from Moynagh Lough 
John Nicholl

Tracing the threads: textile technology and textiles at Moynagh Lough 
Dolores Kearney

The combs of Moynagh Lough 
Billy Sines

The ogam inscription on an antler tine from Moynagh Lough (I-MEA-003) 
David Stifter

PART IV: LANDSCAPE, ENVIRONMENT AND RESOURCES

Investigating the coprolites of Moynagh Lough using biomolecular approaches 
Eleanor Joan Green, Samantha Greeves, Mikołaj Lisowski, Lydia Beckett, George Fogarty, Darcie Eastham, Lucy Wheeler, Richard Hagan, Kirsty Penkman, Nathan Wales, Camilla Speller and Jessica Hendy

Tree-ring studies at Moynagh Lough 
Anne Crone

Charcoal and wood from prehistoric and medieval Moynagh Lough 
Lorna O’Donnell

The archaeobotanical record at Moynagh Lough from prehistory to the early Middle Ages 
David Stone

PART V: PREHISTORIC HORIZONS

Using isotope analysis to investigate prehistoric human–pig interactions at Moynagh Lough
Jonathan Small, Laura Basell, P.J. Reimer, Janet Montgomery and G.M. Nowell

‘Six spearheads and four probable roughouts’? The Moynagh Points from Moynagh Lough 
Deborah Nagle and Graeme Warren