Mesolithic Porcellanite Gaelic Daoine 5500BC

2nd December 0000

Rathlin (Antrim) County Antrim

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first factory production line in eire

5500bc Rathlin island finds included a huge haul of flint tools polished axe heads pottery a bronze finger ring and lignite jewellery the survey has bolstered recent archaeological findings that rathlins human habitation dates to the Mesolithic period around 5500bc which is at least 1000 years earlier than previously thought Porcellanite is a very dense form of recystallised basalt that occurs in the only two places in eire one is at brockley on rathlin porcellanite axes were among the most effective and valued of Neolithic tools and were traded widely throughout eire and great Britain and brockley a cluster of houses within the townland of ballygill middle on rathlin island county antrim features a Neolithic stone axe factory featuring the same porcellanite stone the sources of porcellanite group ix

Research by the irish stone axe project cooney and mandal 1998 has revealed that this stone was used from over half of all the circa 22,000 axeheads found in eire 18000 stone axes gaelic provenance 7294 porcellanite 4000 scottish axes alba provenance 2200 wales axes cumbria provenance 20 porcellanite cumbria South cumbria to lambay 3 axes Cornish axes to eire 14 rathlin ballynoe is several miles from the source of the porcellanite indicating that the stone was transported to other sites on the island for preparation porcellanite polished axe head fragment most of the earliest archaeological findings on rathlin suggest that the island was first inhabited during the Neolithic period the new stone age 4000 to 2500 bc large numbers of flint tools and porcellanite axe heads have been recovered indicating that the islands natural resources were fully exploited by its first inhabitants an archaeological dig at shandragh knockans south in 1994 uncovered large quantities of late Neolithic and bronze age artefacts including worked flint porcellanite and pottery due to the large quantity of material found it seems likely that shandragh was the site of an industrial production facility the prescence of pitchstone from the isle of arran in the firth of clyde indicates that even at this early stage the island had established links with Scotland Porcellanite is a very dense form of recystallised basalt that occurs in the only two places in eire, the other is on the mainland at tievebulliagh near cushendall porcellanite axes were among the most effective and valued of Neolithic tools and were traded widely throughout eire and great Britain and tievebulliagh mountain near cushendall features a Neolithic stone axe factory

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This would be much easier to read if there was punctuation. I would be happy to help however I'm not familiar enough to know the counties and cities referred to. Thanks.

Prairiegirl

Tuesday 6th November 2018 08:18AM

This would be much easier to read if there was punctuation. of course prairiegirl it would but i am dealing with 6ooo years of gaelic history in a langusge not english nor irish nor gaelic its an old old time 6000 years ago so you have to decipher the language once you have a time line and a location you then have to interpret it and there are no punctuation marks to assist you you are in the landscape of eire in the times of the aulden gaelic ones of eire read the lines and make up your mind no matter how difficult you find it its going to be the same to rediscover your ancient galeic heritage as hard and as difficult nothing is easy in life unless you want it to be a doodle you will have to work at it all the time

I would be happy to help thanks for your willingness to assist prairiegirl

however I'm not familiar enough to know the counties well now who does know all the counties in all the countries of the world and who has visited them all

and cities referred to. and who knows all the cities referred to so as i have not visited these places myself and have to conjure up their locations in my mind as they are only names on a page unless of course you believe in what you are reading as a previous deep time in gaelic history then the story is in the telling and the minds eye and not in the words on the page or the locations in the landscape

Thanks but if you do visit do relate back to me what you do discover and so to begin your project ill split the lines prairiegirl for u alone now show me what you want me to do in a couple of the lines below .

5500bc Rathlin island finds included a huge haul of flint tools polished axe heads pottery a bronze finger ring and lignite jewellery

the survey has bolstered recent archaeological findings that rathlins human habitation dates to the Mesolithic period around 5500bc which is at least 1000 years earlier than previously thought

Porcellanite is a very dense form of recystallised basalt that occurs in the only two places in eire one is at brockley on rathlin porcellanite axes were among the most effective and valued of Neolithic tools and were traded widely throughout eire and great Britain

and brockley a cluster of houses within the townland of ballygill middle on rathlin island county antrim features a Neolithic stone axe factory featuring the same porcellanite stone

the sources of porcellanite group ix

Research by the irish stone axe project cooney and mandal 1998 has revealed that this stone was used from over half of all the circa 22,000 axeheads found in eire

18000 stone axes gaelic provenance

7294 porcellanite

4000 scottish axes alba provenance

2200 wales axes cumbria provenance

20 porcellanite cumbria South cumbria to lambay 3 axes

Cornish axes to eire 14 rathlin

ballynoe is several miles from the source of the porcellanite indicating that the stone was transported to other sites on the island for preparation

porcellanite polished axe head fragment

most of the earliest archaeological findings on rathlin suggest that the island was first inhabited during the Neolithic period the new stone age 4000 to 2500 bc

large numbers of flint tools and porcellanite axe heads have been recovered indicating that the islands natural resources were fully exploited by its first inhabitants

an archaeological dig at shandragh knockans south in 1994 uncovered large quantities of late Neolithic and bronze age artefacts including worked flint porcellanite and pottery

due to the large quantity of material found it seems likely that shandragh was the site of an industrial production facility

the prescence of pitchstone from the isle of arran in the firth of clyde indicates that even at this early stage the island had established links with Scotland

Porcellanite is a very dense form of recystallised basalt that occurs in the only two places in eire, the other is on the mainland at tievebulliagh near cushendall

porcellanite axes were among the most effective and valued of Neolithic tools and were traded widely throughout eire and great Britain and tievebulliagh mountain near cushendall features a Neolithic stone axe factory