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Radiocarbon dating for the first
circular inhabitation enclosure at Emain
Machae (Navan Fort near Armagh)
Gold and bronze hoard from Kilbride
near Newport (gold bracelet & gold
dress-fastener together with 2 bronze
axes)
Gold bracelet in two parts found at
Carrowbeg, Kilmeena
Hallstatt influences. Iron Metallurgy
in Ireland, though Bronze Age economy
still in evidence.
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Between 1000 BC - 500 BC a climatic
change occurs and the temperature
decreases. Forestal changes forces animals
further south. A consequence of the
climatic change is longer freezing of the
fjords, which could have led to
difficulties with the hunting of sea
mammals during springtime.
Seasonal movement between inland and
coast is again common.
The west coast of Norway seems to be
well organized. Traces of traditional
stone-fences divides the area into
different farms. Huge grave mounds
characteristic for this period. Chieftains
probably ruled the Bronze Age-society.
Bronze played a major role for the
organization of the society, and those who
controlled the import of it had a leading
position.
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700 BC Three swords are thrust
point down into a bog on the island of
Shuna, seven miles from Kilmartin. A
votive offering? A 'sacrifice'? At about
the same time, a hoard
of metal objects was left on the banks
of Loch Awe at Torran.
c 500 BC Hill-top
fortifications. The remains of around 30
forts survive in the Kilmartin area,
including Dunadd.
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Bronze and Iron Age objects: sculpture
in stone and wood; Turoe stone. La
Téne influence.
Building of crannogs
hillforts , and ringforts
continues; earliest examples of La
Téne influenced art styles in
Ireland
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Around 500 - 300 BC there is a
transition along the coastline of Northern
Norway up to the Tromsø area where
people settle down in farmsteads, and
there is a shift from a more nomadic to a
settled population. This is what developed
into the norse population of the area.
In the interior people continue the
previous way of life steadily more
influenced from cultures further east.
This is what later became the saami
population.
While in the Bronze Age: huge mounds of
burial, artefacts of prestige, sacrifices
and rock carvings, the graves in the
Iron Age
are smaller, poorer, with fewer
sacrifices.
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300 BC Construction of one of
the 20 crannogs on Loch
Awe, north-east of Kilmartin Glen.
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