Feeding Carrickfergus: A Zooarchaeological Study - Judith Findlater
Channel: The Ulster Archaeological Society
Date: 2022-10-25

This paper will provide an introduction to medieval livestock husbandry with the main focus being on the faunal assemblage data from excavations held in Carrickfergus since the 1980s. The paper will discuss ongoing work that is being undertaken as part of a PhD and will include discussions on analyses that are currently being undertaken such as biometrics and isotopic studies on the fauna recovered in archaeological contexts that can be used to ascertain husbandry methods.

Judith Findlater graduated with a BSc Archaeology/Palaeoecology degree from QUB in 1999 and then undertook an MSc Osteoarchaeology at Bournemouth University. She had left archaeology for some years but had returned to the discipline working on various archaeological excavations and also with Historic Environment Division (HED) more recently. She is currently a 2nd year PhD Researcher at QUB funded by the Northern Bridge Doctoral Training Programme. The title of her PhD is 'Feeding Medieval Carrickfergus: A Multi-Proxy Study of Livestock Husbandry in a Frontier Town'. She is also currently a committee member of the Ulster Archaeological Society.