Archaeological Explorations of Cultural Identity and Rural Economy in the North of Ireland: Goodland, County Antrim

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• 作者：Audrey J. Horning
• 关键词：Identity ; rural economy ; Irish historical archaeology ; contemporary politics
• 刊名：International Journal of Historical Archaeology
• 出版年：2004
• 出版时间：September 2004
• 年：2004
• 卷：8
• 期：3
• 页码：199-215
• 全文大小：641 KB

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Renewed examination of an enigmatic settlement site perched atop a cliff above Murlough Bay in Goodland Townland, County Antrim, Northern Ireland calls into question long held ideas about Gaelic rural economy on the eve of the Ulster Plantation by reintroducing the complex cultural and political relationships between the north of Ireland and the Scottish isles. Long interpreted as temporary post-medieval booley huts associated with seasonal transhumance, recent re-evaluation of the site suggests instead that Goodland represents a permanent seventeenth-century Highland Scottish village. Although the medieval linkages between the north of Ireland and the Scottish isles have long been acknowledged, twentieth-century sectarianism has subjugated awareness of the Highland (Roman Catholic) Scots focusing upon the legacy of the in-migration of Protestant Lowland Scots during the Ulster Plantation. Material evidence at Goodland re-introduces the Highland Scot to the contested landscape of contemporary Ulster identity, while also facilitating analysis of continuity, change, and cultural complexity in the rural economy of early modern Ireland.