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Early Medieval Settlements in Northwest Europe, AD 400-1100

International ConferenceUCD School of Archaeology,

University College Dublin26-28 November 2010

A conference exploring how the peoples of early medieval Northwest Europe, AD 400-1100, organized their dwellings, settlements and landscapes, so as to

constitute and represent their social identities of household, community, religion, ethnicity, status, kinship and gender.

A range of international speakers will investigate the subject at scales of household, dwellings, localities and regions. Archaeologists will present papers describing

recent exciting archaeological discoveries and the stories that they enable us to tell about how people lived together in the past

EARLY MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY PROJECT (EMAP)

Irish National Strategic Archaeological Research(INSTAR) Programme 2010

Grant No. AR010585

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Provisional Conference Programme

Day One: Friday 26th November Pre-conference optional Fieldtrips to Viking Age and Medieval Ireland exhibitions at National

Museum of Ireland & Viking and Medieval Dublin exhibition at Dublinia

18:00–18:30 Conference Welcome

Prof. Gabriel Cooney, Head of School

18:30–19:30 Early Medieval Archaeology in Ireland and the Celtic Tiger boom Keynote Conference Lecture, Speaker, and Title to be confirmed

19:30–20:30 Registration and Reception

International and national speakers include Helena Hamerow (University of Oxford); Chris Loveluck (University of Nottingham); Martin Carver (University of York, editor Antiquity); Gabor Thomas (University of Reading); Mark Redknap (National Museum of Wales); Chris Lowe (Headland Archaeology); Simon Gilmour (Society of Antiquaries of Scotland); Sally

Foster (University of Glasgow, editor Medieval Archaeology); John Barber and Anne Crone (AOC Scotland); David Griffiths (University of Oxford); Aidan O'Sullivan, Jonathan Kinsella

and Lorcan Harney (University College Dublin); Finbar McCormick and Thomas Kerr (Queens University Belfast); Michelle Comber (NUI Galway); Paul Stevens (Valerie J. Keeley Ltd);

Tomás Ó Carraigáin (University College Cork); Linzi Simpson (Margaret Gowen & Co Ltd); Robert O'Hara (Archer Heritage Ltd), Gareth Davies (University of Nottingham); Matt Seaver

(EMAP), Mícheál Ó Droma, amongst several others to be confirmed.

VenueGlobal Irish Institute, University College Dublin.

RegistrationFor registration, programme updates, venue location etc. please contact the

organisers at the conference website:www.ucd.ie/archaeology/emap2010

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Day Two: Saturday 27th November (provisional day and time slots) 08:45–09:15 Registration Global Irish Institute, UCD, Dublin

09:15–09:30 Welcome

9:30–10:00 Early Medieval Archaeology Project (EMAP): dwelling and settlements, crafts and economy in early medieval Ireland. Dr Aidan O’Sullivan, University College Dublin & Dr. Finbar McCormick, Queens University Belfast

10:00–10:30 Early medieval settlement across the Atlantic Seaways: contacts, development and change in Scotland, AD 400-900 Dr Simon Gilmour, Society of Antiquaries of Scotland

10:30–11:00 Early medieval dwellings and settlements in Wales: recent research Dr Mark Redknap, National Museum of Wales, Cardiff

11:00–11:15 Discussion

11:15–11:45 Tea/coffee

11:45–12:15 Early medieval settlement and landscape in the Burren, western Ireland Dr Michele Comber, NUI Galway

12:15–12:45 The residences of Pictish power in early medieval Scotland Dr Sally Foster, University of Glasgow

12:45–13:00 Discussion

13:00–14:00 Lunch

14:00–14:30 Early medieval north-west Europe: settlements, behavioural settings and social identity, AD 600–1100 Prof Chris Loveluck, University of Nottingham

14:30–15:00 Early medieval settlement morphologies and material culture: the changing rural elites of Anglo-Saxon Norfolk Gareth Davies, University of Nottingham

15:00–15:15 Discussion

15:15–15:30 Tea/coffee

15:30–16:00 Early medieval architecture and engineering: the construction of secular and sacred wooden structures Dr John Barber and Anne Crone, AOC Scotland

16:00–16:30 The Anglo-Saxon house: form, function and social space Prof. Helena Hamerow, University of Oxford

16:30–17:00 Viking Age buildings, landscape and status – from Orkney to the Irish Sea and back again Dr David Griffiths, University of Oxford

17:00–17:30 From ringforts to bigger things. The evolution of two early medieval enclosure sites from Co. Tipperary Mícheál Ó Droma and Jonathan Kinsella

17:30–18:00 General Discussion Conference entertainment

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Day Three: Sunday 28th November (provisional day and time slots) 09:00–09:15 Welcome

9:30–10:00 Living with God: archaeologies of the sacred and profane in early medieval monastic settlements in Ireland Lorcan Harney and Dr Thom Kerr, UCD/QUB, EMAP

10:00–10:30 Living with the dead in early medieval Ireland: settlement enclosures with human burials, AD 400-1100 Matt Seaver, EMAP

10:30–11:00 Early medieval settlement on ecclesiastical estates: the Making Christian Landscapes Project Dr Tomás Ó Carraigáin, Dept of Archaeology, UCC

11:00–11:15 Discussion

11:15–11:45 Tea/coffee

11:45–12:15 Early insular monasteries and prehistory - some tentative relationships Prof Martin Carver, Antiquity and University of York

12:15–12:45 Early historic monastic settlements and their use of space: case studies from Hoddom and Inchmarnock Chris Lowe, Headland Archaeology

12:45–13:00 Discussion

13:00–14:00 Lunch

14:00–14:30 Early medieval settlement dynamics and monastic foundation in pre-Viking England: New perspectives from excavations at Lyminge, Kent Dr Gabor Thomas, University of Reading

14:30–15:00 Archaeological excavations at an early medieval monastic site at Clonfad, Co. Westmeath Paul Stevens, Valerie J. Keeley

15:00–15:15 Discussion

15:15–15:30 Tea/coffee

15:30–16:00 Digging through the Celtic Tiger boom: Excavating early medieval settlements in Brega Rob O’Hara, Archer Heritage Ltd/EMAP

16:00–16:30 The Viking longphort and town at Dublin: insights from new discoveries Linzi Simpson, Margaret Gowen and Co. Ltd

16:30–17:00 Early Medieval dwellings and settlements in North-west Europe, AD 400–1100: Some Concluding thoughts Title and speaker to be confirmed

17:00–17:30 Final conference discussion

17:30 Conference Closes

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