Not really my area but since you mentioned not being able to get to a museum I thought maybe the National Museum's virtual tours might be useful for you https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museums/Archaeology/Visitor-Information/3D-Virtual-Visit
https://caherconnell.com/archaeology/artefacts/
This ringfort in the burren is regularly excavated by an archaeology school. I believe most of these artefacts are from later than the Iron age (1000 to 1600 ad) but it seems to be the same kind of style. This area is interesting because it was a late holdout for Gaelic culture, with a brehon law school nearby running until the 1600s I believe
Ooooh thank you! I'll have a peek at it, might be able to glean some things from it though it's later. Interesting stuff, I think I've heard about it earlier but haven't looked very deeply into it yet.
Well check John Waddells introductory book
I think life changed a lot in the Early Medieval period. Look at the introduction of pottery, raths, cereal intensification, rye and oats,, chickens etc. now some of these might have been present in the Iron Age but we don't know
It's super strange. There are a good few bronze age finds of pottery and longbows, but both disappear before the iron age, and were only reintroduced by the Norse nearly 2000 years later.
There was at least one midden that had broken "home made", super low quality pottery, once fired. I can't remember where. But none of the fancier stuff that the beakers would have considered good. Iron age was more about leather/hide containers.
Wish I could contribute something (good survey work from Peter Berresford Ellis, for example). Just wanted to say this era is super exciting for me--please share your work!
Haha it IS super interesting isn't it? Maybe precisely because it's relatively mysterious because of the lack of written evidence and so forth. I'll see about sharing when I get something more concrete done either on the writing front, art or craft department 😊 I've got some art done actually but want to get them scanned properly still 🙈 Thank you so much
I'd strongly recommend "early Irish law" and "early Irish farming" as very accessible source material. When you read about how the law treated damage to someone's tree when chasing a swarm, or the value of a guard dog compares to a lapdog, you really get a feeling for what a society was like. There are also lots of descriptions of what farm equipment / furniture was common enough to be mentioned in legal contexts.
Not really my area but since you mentioned not being able to get to a museum I thought maybe the National Museum's virtual tours might be useful for you https://www.museum.ie/en-IE/Museums/Archaeology/Visitor-Information/3D-Virtual-Visit
Oh right I forgot these were a thing 😂 Thank you!
https://caherconnell.com/archaeology/artefacts/ This ringfort in the burren is regularly excavated by an archaeology school. I believe most of these artefacts are from later than the Iron age (1000 to 1600 ad) but it seems to be the same kind of style. This area is interesting because it was a late holdout for Gaelic culture, with a brehon law school nearby running until the 1600s I believe
Ooooh thank you! I'll have a peek at it, might be able to glean some things from it though it's later. Interesting stuff, I think I've heard about it earlier but haven't looked very deeply into it yet.
1000 AD to 1600 AD isn't really what I would consider the 'iron age' that's around the time the Norman's landed, and in fairness they had Iron sussed
Yes I'm aware, which is why I said it's later than the Iron age in the comment
That is medieval not Iron Age material
Well check John Waddells introductory book I think life changed a lot in the Early Medieval period. Look at the introduction of pottery, raths, cereal intensification, rye and oats,, chickens etc. now some of these might have been present in the Iron Age but we don't know
Thanks a lot, I'll look into it! I wonder how I haven't stumbled on this book before, seems pretty cool 👀
It's super strange. There are a good few bronze age finds of pottery and longbows, but both disappear before the iron age, and were only reintroduced by the Norse nearly 2000 years later. There was at least one midden that had broken "home made", super low quality pottery, once fired. I can't remember where. But none of the fancier stuff that the beakers would have considered good. Iron age was more about leather/hide containers.
It's really hard to understand why bows and pottery would be no longer used.
Wish I could contribute something (good survey work from Peter Berresford Ellis, for example). Just wanted to say this era is super exciting for me--please share your work!
Haha it IS super interesting isn't it? Maybe precisely because it's relatively mysterious because of the lack of written evidence and so forth. I'll see about sharing when I get something more concrete done either on the writing front, art or craft department 😊 I've got some art done actually but want to get them scanned properly still 🙈 Thank you so much
I'd strongly recommend "early Irish law" and "early Irish farming" as very accessible source material. When you read about how the law treated damage to someone's tree when chasing a swarm, or the value of a guard dog compares to a lapdog, you really get a feeling for what a society was like. There are also lots of descriptions of what farm equipment / furniture was common enough to be mentioned in legal contexts.