Céide Fields

an important Neolithic archaeological site in the northwest of Ireland

Discovery

·In the 1930s, a local teacher realised that stones beneath the bog surface were once

·His became an archaeologist and undertook an investigation pf the site;

- a traditional method used by local people to dig for was used to identify where stones were located

-carbon dating later proved the site was Neolithic.

·Items are well preserved in the bog because of a lack of

.Neolithic farmers·Houses were in shape and had a hole in the roof.·Neolithic innovations include:

- cooking indoors

- pots used for storage and to make .

·Each field at Céide was large enough to support a big .

·The fields were probably used to restrict the grazing of animals – no evidence of structures to house them during .

Reasons for the decline in farming

·a decline in quality

·an increase in