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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 20h

Join us at Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs Project Group. #oceanspast #OceanAction46159 #maritimeheritage #IndigenousPeoples #oceandecadeheritage
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An example of a monastic landscape, where monks established their own ponds in the area for fish farming at the Maulbronn Monastery Unesco World Heritage Site
https://www.kloster-maulbronn.de/en/interesting-amusing/collections/fish-farming

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 20h

Located near the medieval Abbaye Notre-Dame de Daoulas they traps may be part of monastics property of the foundation. The shore is currently being used of aquaculture like oysters and has number of modern shellfish ponds on it shore.
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#fishweir #Logonna-#daoulas #Brittney #France. Aerial images from Google maps.

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 20h

The sites are shaped in shallow depression near the upper highwater mark. This gored in doesn't match U & V shaped traps common on the #Brittany coast. They are most likely holding pounds for fish or shellfish that were used to store the catch from fish weirs in the area. 2/4

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 20h

Fish pens or #shellfishpond #Logonna-#daoulas #Brittney #France. Two Stone ponds are located at the mouth Anse de Pebb Foull bay. Called gored in the local #Brittanydialect to mean stone ‘fish trap’. #Brittanyhas hundreds of traditional v & u-shaped fish traps. 1/4

Picture of the stone pen also #fishweir #Logonna-#daoulas #Brittney #France

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 21h

Wishing our team member Miss Madgalena Magdalena Nowakowska of the University of Warsaw A very happy birthday! Wszystkiego najlepszego! Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs Project.

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 1d

Join us at Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs Project Group. #oceanspast #OceanAction46159 #maritimeheritage #IndigenousPeoples #oceandecadeheritage oceandecadechfp.org/.../indigeno...
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Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs - The Cultural Heritage Framework Programme

oceandecadechfp.org

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 1d

The process of denigration of the general environment due to bad management and overuse of fisheries resulted in many of the important river fisheries, such as salmon, being destroyed by the start of the 20th century. 6/7

A typical semicircular fish trap.

R Douglass 1988; NMRS, MS/534/1.
Site Name Mull, Altcrich

Classification Fish Trap (Period Unassigned)

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 1d

As well as being consumed locally by the growing communities of the highland lochs much of the fish were smoked and preserved for export by waggon and later by rail. The advent of the Industrial Revolution in the United Kingdom, coupled with population has negative impacts.
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A tidal fish trap (NM45SW 20) at Loch a' Chumhainn, Dervaig, Isle of Mull. An irregular drystone wall.

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 1d

Historical sources from the 17th and 18th centuries give us a lot of information about the use of these fishing methods and the species that they sometimes took, #salmon, #trout, #herring #eelsfeatured heavily in written sources.
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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 1d

But also are represented in the artwork and iconography of many of these societies. Across the British Isles, the mythology relating to fishing and fisheries are rich in symbolism and identity.
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Aerial image form google of a Stone #fishweirs from #Morvern #SoundofMull, #Scotland.

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 1d

Archaeological and historical evidence places fisheries at the heart of many of the early inhabitants of Scotland and the wider British Isles. Not only do salmon feature heavily in many of the archaeological deposits from all periods. 2/7

Aerial image from google of Stone #fishweirs from #Morvern #SoundofMull, #Scotland.

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 1d

Stone #fishweirs from #Morvern #SoundofMull, #Scotland. Called yairs in Scottish #Gaelic. Found as far back as the Stone Age, many being built in the 17th-19th centuries. Mostly made as ebb weirs utilizing firths tides of sea loughs.
#coastalhistory
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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 2d

Stone-walled fishtraps at Lake Condah, southeast Australia. Archaeologal data shows modification of water flow c.6600 cal BP and in last 600/800 years.
McNiven, Ian J., et al. "Dating Aboriginal stone-walled fishtraps at Lake Condah, southeast Australia." www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 2d

Heavy traffic on Monday morning! #snorkelling #sealife #Almería #alboransea #spain

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 3d

#snorkelling #sea #sealife #Almería #AlboranSea #Spain

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 3d

"earliest-known recorded name of a person in writing"

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 4d

Shakespeare's words "What's in a name? That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet". The oldest human name we know Kushim (Sumerian: 𒆪𒋆 KU.ŠIM; fl. c. 3200 BC) is supposedly the earliest-known recorded name of a person in writing.

A Sumerian clay tablet potentially signed by Kushim in the upper left corner. (Not the more well-known "Kushim tablet")

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 5d

All aboard Coasts in Mind's Mapping Platform | MOLA share.google/7tLF9AZM7MgP...
#coastalheritage #coast_in_mind
#mola #MaritimeCulturalHeritage #coastalhistory

All aboard Coasts in Mind's Mapping Platform

We’re delighted to announce the launch of our Coasts in Mind project ’s brand-new Mapping Platform!

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MAEASaM @maeasamproject.bsky.social · 5d

It’s time for #HeritageFromAbove
Do you know where we are today? Hint: Its ruins were superimposed by a Makurian defensive fort (1250-1340 AD), a monastery of St. George in which the Nubian King Solomon was buried. Send your answers in the comments below and as usual good luck! #Quiz

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 5d

"Al Khandaq" fort/castle historic village in Northern Sudan known for its unique mud-brick architecture and rich cultural heritage??

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 5d

Some Images of the Blackwater Estuary Fish Traps, #Essex #UK.
These and others can be found the archive here doi.org/10.5284/1022...
#coastalhistory

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 6d

Thanks for sharing the post and tagging Project FisHistory!

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 6d

Join us at Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs Project Group. #oceanspast #OceanAction46159 #maritimeheritage #IndigenousPeoples #oceandecadeheritage
oceandecadechfp.org/.../indigeno...
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Indigenous People, Traditional Ecological Knowledge, and Climate Change: The Iconic Underwater Cultural Heritage of Stone Tidal Weirs - The Cultural Heritage Framework Programme

oceandecadechfp.org

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 6d

Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW)
@RCAHMWales #HistoricWalesresources are great to study the #maritime #archaeologyand #historyof #Wales!
historic-wales-rcahmw.hub.arcgis.com
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Historic Wales

Welcome to Historic Wales, the map enabled portal for historic environment information in Wales. You can search hundreds of thousands of records of Welsh archaeology, buildings and artefacts.

historic-wales-rcahmw.hub.arcgis.com

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Paul Montgomery @stonefishweirs.bsky.social · 6d

The weirs feature in the writings of travel writer Thomas Pennant's 1783 'Tour of Wales' as still being active in the 18th century. Historical sources indicate that fish like herring and mackerel featured heavily in their catch in the 19th century prior to their abandonment in the 20th century.
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