Chapter 2 : Ancient Ireland

Question 0

Oldest sign of settlement was in msa

Answer 0

Mount sandel Derry banks of river bann

Question 1

First settlers in Ireland came in

Answer 1

Middle Stone Age, 7000 BC

Question 2

Houses msa

Answer 2

Round huts with upright posts, frame built from saplings, covered in animal skins, Hearth in middle, mid dens next to site

Question 3

Post holes msa

Answer 3

Pattern of holes left in ground

Question 4

How do they know when they arrived msa

Answer 4

Carbon dating of hazelnut shells

Question 5

Where did they come from msa

Answer 5

Scotland or Wales because the coast can be seen from there

Question 6

How did they get there msa

Answer 6

Dugout canoes, small tub like boats made from animal skins held together with a light wooden frame

Question 7

Where did they settle msa

Answer 7

Coast or bank of lakes because Ireland was covered in forest

Question 8

Tools msa

Answer 8

Small stones and flint microlit, sharp stones set into wood to make axes spears arrows

Question 9

Clothes msa

Answer 9

Animal skins cleaned with stone scrapers skins stitched with bone needles

Question 10

Food msa

Answer 10

Birds wild boar were hunted nuts and berries were gathered moved around because they used it all up hunter gatherer

Question 11

Land nsa

Answer 11

land divided into seperate fields with stone wall

Question 12

Tools NSA

Answer 12

Polished stone,

Question 13

How to make soil NSA

Answer 13

Cut trees with stone axes, removed and prepared the soil for crops or grazing using wooden ploughs or mattocks to turn soil

Question 14

Clothes NSA

Answer 14

Animal skin, sheeps wool, spinning and weaving developed, plant dyes added colour

Question 15

Houses NSA

Answer 15

higher ground was easier to plough, stone wood, rectangular, thick posts weaving branches between, mud and straw plastered to keep rain out, roof from straw or animal skin.

Question 16

Cooking NSA

Answer 16

Around fireplace in middle of hues, food stored in clay pots quern small and large stone grind wheat

Question 17

Death and burial NSA

Answer 17

Dolmen, passage grave, court cairn

Question 18

Dolmen

Answer 18

Three standing stones, capstone on top

Question 19

Court cairn

Answer 19

Small entrance lies at entrance of burial chamber built from standing stones covered in earth

Question 20

Passage grave

Answer 20

Corbelled roof stone slabs sticking out

Question 21

Newgrange

Answer 21

Passage grave, 21 December light shines through, used as calendar, four bodies found there

Question 22

Tools ba

Answer 22

Tin and copper alloy bronze, beaten or melted and poured in to moulds sickle

Question 23

Jewellery

Answer 23

Gold lunula

Question 24

Burial customs ba

Answer 24

Cist grave wedge tomb stone circle

Question 25

Cist grave

Answer 25

Stone lined shallow pit covered with large flat stone

Question 26

Wedge tomb

Answer 26

Narrow and wide, above ground covered with earth

Question 27

Stone circle

Answer 27

Upright stone used for worship or calendar

Question 28

Food ba

Answer 28

Fulachtadh fiadh pit with water hot stones straw wrapped meat cauldrons