Word: crannogs
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...pollen grains of elm, alder, beech and oak and fossil shellfish reveal a warm climate. The Bronze Age began about 1800 B. C., the Iron Age not until 100 A. D. From then until the Anglo-Norman conquests (12th Century) the Irish lived in wicker huts, wooden houses or crannogs-lake dwellings. Still being explored is a royal crannog where Irish kings held court for two centuries. To get a complete picture of Irishmen old & new, Harvard scientists are making anthropological measurements and sociological observations of thousands of living inhabitants. The whole project is directed by Anthropologist Ernest Albert Hooton...
...mound on Ards Peninsula, Ireland, said to contain a Viking ship burial, a large "crannog," or lake-dwelling, bronze-age cairns in Galway county, and an iron-age village way county, and an iron-age village in Wicklow county will be excavated by Hencken and his associates. A sociological study of county Clare will be carried on under the management of W. L. Warner, assistant professor of Social Anthropology...
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