Revealing the Past 2023: Staad Climate and Environmental Change Project

Fiona Beglane presents research carried out at Staad Abbey, Co Sligo, where shifting sands on the adjacent beach revealed peat deposits. The aim of this RIA-funded project was to conduct detailed multi-proxy environmental analysis of a peat monolith obtained during a completed excavation of an Early Bronze Age wooden trackway/platform and a series of Middle Bronze Age wooden stakes. This presentation discussed the environment of deposition, anthropogenic indicators and changes in vegetation and land use through time from the start of peat deposition in the Mesolithic period, through to the Late Bronze Age.