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Crannog, the Glossary

A crannog (crannóg; crannag) is typically a partially or entirely artificial island, usually built in lakes and estuarine waters of Scotland, Wales, and Ireland.^[1]

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Ancient Ireland
Archaeology of Ireland
Archaeology of Northern Ireland
Archaeology of Scotland
Bronze Age Scotland
Crannogs
Forts in Ireland
Forts in Scotland
Iron Age Scotland
Prehistoric Ireland
Stone Age sites in Scotland

Airgíalla

Airgíalla (Modern Irish: Oirialla, English: Oriel, Latin: Ergallia) was a medieval Irish over-kingdom and the collective name for the confederation of tribes that formed it.

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Alison Phipps (refugee researcher)

Alison Phipps OBE FRSE FRSA FAcSS a University of Glasgow professor of Languages and Intercultural Studies and holds the first UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts.

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Antiquity (journal)

Antiquity is an academic journal dedicated to the subject of archaeology.

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Argyll

Argyll (archaically Argyle; Earra-Ghàidheal), sometimes called Argyllshire, is a historic county and registration county of western Scotland.

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Artificial island

An artificial island or man-made island is an island that has been constructed by humans rather than formed through natural processes.

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Ballinderry

Ballinderry is a small civil and ecclesiastical parish on both sides of the County Londonderry / County Tyrone border in Northern Ireland.

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The British Iron Age is a conventional name used in the archaeology of Great Britain, referring to the prehistoric and protohistoric phases of the Iron Age culture of the main island and the smaller islands, typically excluding prehistoric Ireland, which had an independent Iron Age culture of its own.

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Bronze Age

The Bronze Age was a historical period lasting from approximately 3300 to 1200 BC.

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Bronze Age Britain

Bronze Age Britain is an era of British history that spanned from until. Crannog and Bronze Age Britain are Bronze Age Scotland.

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Butter churn

A butter churn is a device used to convert cream into butter, a process known as churning.

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Carbon-14

Carbon-14, C-14, or radiocarbon, is a radioactive isotope of carbon with an atomic nucleus containing 6 protons and 8 neutrons.

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Castle Espie

Castle Espie is a wetland reserve managed by the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) on the banks of Strangford Lough, three miles south of Comber, County Down, Northern Ireland, in the townland of the same name.

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Cattle

Cattle (Bos taurus) are large, domesticated, bovid ungulates widely kept as livestock. They are prominent modern members of the subfamily Bovinae and the most widespread species of the genus Bos. Mature female cattle are called cows and mature male cattle are bulls. Young female cattle are called heifers, young male cattle are oxen or bullocks, and castrated male cattle are known as steers.

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Confidence interval

Informally, in frequentist statistics, a confidence interval (CI) is an interval which is expected to typically contain the parameter being estimated.

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County Clare

County Clare (Contae an Chláir) is a county in the province of Munster in the Southern part of the republic of Ireland, bordered on the west by the Atlantic Ocean.

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County Down

County Down is one of the six counties of Northern Ireland, one of the nine counties of Ulster and one of the traditional thirty-two counties of Ireland.

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County Monaghan

County Monaghan (Contae Mhuineacháin) is a county in Ireland.

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County Wexford

County Wexford (Contae Loch Garman) is a county in Ireland.

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Craggaunowen

Craggaunowen is an archaeological open-air museum in eastern County Clare, Ireland.

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Crow's nest

A crow's nest is a structure in the upper part of the main mast of a ship or a structure that is used as a lookout point.

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Deep foundation

A deep foundation is a type of foundation that transfers building loads to the earth farther down from the surface than a shallow foundation does to a subsurface layer or a range of depths.

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Deer

A deer (deer) or true deer is a hoofed ruminant ungulate of the family Cervidae (informally the deer family).

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Dendrochronology

Dendrochronology (or tree-ring dating) is the scientific method of dating tree rings (also called growth rings) to the exact year they were formed in a tree.

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Diminutive

A diminutive is a word obtained by modifying a root word to convey a slighter degree of its root meaning, either to convey the smallness of the object or quality named, or to convey a sense of intimacy or endearment, and sometimes to derogatorily belittle something or someone.

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Dugout canoe

A dugout canoe or simply dugout is a boat made from a hollowed-out tree.

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Dumfries and Galloway

Dumfries and Galloway (Dumfries an Gallowa; Dùn Phrìs is Gall-Ghaidhealaibh) is one of the 32 unitary council areas of Scotland, located in the western part of the Southern Uplands.

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Dun (fortification)

A dun is an ancient or medieval fort. Crannog and dun (fortification) are archaeology of Scotland and Fortifications by type.

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Eilean Dòmhnuill

Ian Armit identifies the islet of Eilean Dòmhnuill (Eilean Dòmhnaill,, "The Isle of Donald"), Loch Olabhat, on North Uist, Scotland, as what may be the earliest crannog. Crannog and Eilean Dòmhnuill are Neolithic Scotland and stone Age sites in Scotland.

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Estuary

An estuary is a partially enclosed coastal body of brackish water with one or more rivers or streams flowing into it, and with a free connection to the open sea.

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Folk etymology

Folk etymology – also known as (generative) popular etymology, analogical reformation, (morphological) reanalysis and etymological reinterpretation – is a change in a word or phrase resulting from the replacement of an unfamiliar form by a more familiar one through popular usage.

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Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland

The Inner Seas off the West Coast of Scotland is a marine area designated by the International Hydrographic Organization (IHO).

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Ireland

Ireland (Éire; Ulster-Scots: Airlann) is an island in the North Atlantic Ocean, in north-western Europe.

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Irish National Heritage Park

The Irish National Heritage Park is an open-air museum near Wexford, Ireland, which tells the story of human settlement in Ireland from the Mesolithic period up to the Norman Invasion in 1169.

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Irish Texts Society

The Irish Texts Society (Cumann na Scríbheann nGaedhilge) was founded in 1898 to promote the study of Irish literature.

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Isle of Lewis

The Isle of Lewis (Eilean Leòdhais) or simply Lewis (Leòdhas) is the northern part of Lewis and Harris, the largest island of the Western Isles or Outer Hebrides archipelago in Scotland.

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Lake

A lake is an often naturally occurring, relatively large and fixed body of water on or near the Earth's surface.

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Llangorse Lake

Llangorse Lake, or Llangors Lake (Llyn Syfaddon, variant: Llyn Syfaddan), is the largest natural lake in Mid and South Wales, and is situated in the Brecon Beacons National Park, near the town of Brecon and the village of Llangors. Crannog and Llangorse Lake are crannogs.

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Loch Tay

Loch Tay (Loch Tatha) is a freshwater loch in the central highlands of Scotland, in the Perth and Kinross and Stirling council areas, the largest body of fresh water in Perth and Kinross.

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Lughnasadh

Lughnasadh, Lughnasa or Lúnasa is a Gaelic festival marking the beginning of the harvest season.

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Midsummer

Midsummer is a celebration of the season of summer, taking place on or near the date of the summer solstice in the Northern Hemisphere; the longest day of the year.

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Milton Loch

Milton Loch is an alkaline freshwater loch located in Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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Monaghan

Monaghan is the county town of County Monaghan, Ireland.

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Mortise and tenon

A mortise and tenon (occasionally mortice and tenon) joint connects two pieces of wood or other material.

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Neolithic

The Neolithic or New Stone Age (from Greek νέος 'new' and λίθος 'stone') is an archaeological period, the final division of the Stone Age in Europe, Asia and Africa.

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North Uist

North Uist (Uibhist a Tuath; North Uise) is an island and community in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland.

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Old Irish

Old Irish, also called Old Gaelic (Goídelc, Ogham script: ᚌᚑᚔᚇᚓᚂᚉ; Sean-Ghaeilge; Seann-Ghàidhlig; Shenn Yernish or Shenn Ghaelg), is the oldest form of the Goidelic/Gaelic language for which there are extensive written texts. Crannog and old Irish are medieval history of Ireland.

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Outer Hebrides

The Outer Hebrides or Western Isles (na h-Eileanan Siar, na h-Eileanan an Iar or label; Waster Isles), sometimes known as the Long Isle or Long Island (an t-Eilean Fada), is an island chain off the west coast of mainland Scotland.

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Peggy Guido

Cecily Margaret Guido, (née Preston; 5 August 1912 – 8 September 1994), also known as Peggy Piggott, was an English archaeologist, prehistorian, and finds specialist.

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Perthshire

Perthshire (locally:; Siorrachd Pheairt), officially the County of Perth, is a historic county and registration county in central Scotland.

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Pig

The pig (Sus domesticus), also called swine (swine) or hog, is an omnivorous, domesticated, even-toed, hoofed mammal.

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Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps

Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps are a series of prehistoric pile dwelling (or stilt house) settlements in and around the Alps built from about 5000 to 500 BC on the edges of lakes, rivers or wetlands.

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Pulpit

A pulpit is a raised stand for preachers in a Christian church.

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Radiocarbon dating

Radiocarbon dating (also referred to as carbon dating or carbon-14 dating) is a method for determining the age of an object containing organic material by using the properties of radiocarbon, a radioactive isotope of carbon.

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Revetment

A revetment in stream restoration, river engineering or coastal engineering is a facing of impact-resistant material (such as stone, concrete, sandbags, or wooden piles) applied to a bank or wall in order to absorb the energy of incoming water and protect it from erosion.

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Routledge

Routledge is a British multinational publisher.

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Samhain

Samhain, i or Oíche Shamhna is a Gaelic festival on 1 November marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter or "darker half" of the year.

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Scandinavian Scotland

Scandinavian Scotland was the period from the 8th to the 15th centuries during which Vikings and Norse settlers, mainly Norwegians and to a lesser extent other Scandinavians, and their descendants colonised parts of what is now the periphery of modern Scotland.

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Scotland

Scotland (Scots: Scotland; Scottish Gaelic: Alba) is a country that is part of the United Kingdom.

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Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic (endonym: Gàidhlig), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland.

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Soay sheep

The Soay sheep is a breed of domestic sheep (Ovis aries) descended from a population of feral sheep on the island of Soay in the St Kilda Archipelago, about from the Western Isles of Scotland.

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Stratigraphy

Stratigraphy is a branch of geology concerned with the study of rock layers (strata) and layering (stratification).

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The History Press

The History Press is a British publishing company specialising in the publication of titles devoted to local and specialist history.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; pronounced) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) with the aim of promoting world peace and security through international cooperation in education, arts, sciences and culture.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crannog

Also known as Crannoge, Crannogs, Cranog.

, Prehistoric pile dwellings around the Alps, Pulpit, Radiocarbon dating, Revetment, Routledge, Samhain, Scandinavian Scotland, Scotland, Scottish Gaelic, Soay sheep, Stratigraphy, The History Press, UNESCO, University of Glasgow, Wales, World War II.

Crannog, the Glossary

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See also

Ancient Ireland

Archaeology of Ireland

Archaeology of Northern Ireland

Archaeology of Scotland

Bronze Age Scotland

Crannogs

Forts in Ireland

Forts in Scotland

Iron Age Scotland

Prehistoric Ireland

Stone Age sites in Scotland

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