TY - JOUR
T1 - Technological change in the agrarian economy of early medieval Ireland
T2 - New archaeological evidence for the introduction of the coulter plough
AU - Rynne, Colin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 Royal Irish Academy.
PY - 2018
Y1 - 2018
N2 - Several authors have argued that coulter ploughs were not introduced into Ireland until the Viking period. This theory is problematic given the extraordinary corpus of archaeological evidence for cereal production in pre-Viking Ireland, including several hundred corn drying kilns and some 153 water-powered mill sites. Using comparisons with continental examples, two pre-ninth century plough coulters are identified. The implications of these discoveries and the relationships between coulter ploughs and other cereal processing technologies are considered.
AB - Several authors have argued that coulter ploughs were not introduced into Ireland until the Viking period. This theory is problematic given the extraordinary corpus of archaeological evidence for cereal production in pre-Viking Ireland, including several hundred corn drying kilns and some 153 water-powered mill sites. Using comparisons with continental examples, two pre-ninth century plough coulters are identified. The implications of these discoveries and the relationships between coulter ploughs and other cereal processing technologies are considered.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85058291904
U2 - 10.3318/priac.2018.118.09
DO - 10.3318/priac.2018.118.09
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85058291904
SN - 0035-8991
VL - 118C
SP - 37
EP - 66
JO - Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature
JF - Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy, Section C: Archaeology, Celtic Studies, History, Linguistics and Literature
ER -