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Antlers and horse bones dating back 1,500 years found on Galway beach
Marks indicate finds may have been used in ‘ritual ceremony’
Pictured near the site with some of the red deer antlers from 500 AD which were found on the outskirts of Galway city are Brian O Carra, author of the paper on the site (left) and geologist, Prof Mike Williams. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy.
Pictured near the site with some of the red deer antlers from 500 AD which were found on the outskirts of Galway city are Brian O Carra, author of the paper on the site (left) and geologist, Prof Mike Williams. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy.
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Red deer antlers and horse bones dating back 1,500 years from north Galway Bay could have formed part of a ritual ceremony.
The antlers, skulls, jaws and bones of the animals were located by Brian O’Carra and Mike Williams on an inter-tidal zone west of Galway city.
Cut marks on bones indicate that they were consumed for subsistence or ritually sacrificed, at a time when Christianity was already taking hold in Ireland, Prof Williams says.
Prof Mike Williams, geologist wtih NUI Galway Earth and Ocean Sciences, recording data on the remains of an oak trackway, estimated to be between 3,700 years old, on the shoreline near Furbo. The trackway was uncovered by last winter’s storms. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy Ancient oak structure from Connemara coast excavated and taken into State care
Remains of an oak trackway, estimated to be between 3,500 and 4,500 years old, on the shore near Furbo, Co Galway. Photograph: Joe O’Shaughnessy Ancient trackway found within ‘drowned forest’ in Connemara
The stump of a 7,500-year-old tree at a drowned forest site exposed by storms at Spiddal, Co Galway. Photograph: Joe O’ShaughnessyStorms reveal 7,500-year-old ‘drowned forest’ on north Galway coastline
Eating horses would have been forbidden because of “pagan” connotations, which makes the evidence even more intriguing, he says.
Radiocarbon dating of one antler has estimated its age range as being between 430 AD and 548 AD.
Lagoons and forests
Prof Williams and Mr O’Carra have already collaborated in charting how Galway Bay was once an area of lagoons and forests before the sea level rose thousands of years ago.
However, “significant environmental changes” may have occurred as recently as 1,500 years ago, they suggest, having examined the area where the antlers and bones were embedded.
The finds were in black silty mud containing shells.
This “palaeoenvironment of still water conditions” contrasts strongly with the current character of the area as a “high energy” coastal environment, they state in a paper with fellow authors Brian Mercer and Bill Wood for the Irish Naturalists’ Journal.
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They say it is not possible to determine if such changes were linked to changes in sea levels. The location is currently normally well covered at full tide.
Only one species of red deer roamed in Ireland at that time, as the fallow deer dates from about 1200 AD.
Red deer were important in medieval society, Prof Williams and Mr O’Carra note, and monasteries used them to “establish an identity” for themselves as being beyond royal control.
They believe the antlers they found came from young, sexually mature stags. Red deer tend to drop their antlers each year around March and April, after the rutting season.
The horse bones matched a small young horse and an older horse or pony.
Glacial influence
The site appears to have been protected by glacial debris, and remains of drumlins point to a more extensive drumlin field in Galway Bay.
Both the National Museum of Ireland and the Office of Public Works have been notified, and Prof Williams and Mr O’Carra advise that the site requires “organised archaeological excavation”.
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