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QUADRAT researcher Cherie Edwards has published a single author article in the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland.

Titled ‘Going with the flow: internal floor drains in Middle-Late Bronze Age roundhouses from Scotland, Ireland, and Wales suggest links with Orkney’, the paper highlights a previously overlooked corpus of unique Bronze Age dwellings exhibiting engineered internal flooring drains. The sites offer evidence that ties Middle Bronze Age settlement sites in Scotland, Northern Ireland, and Wales together between 1450-1050 BC and suggest broader cultural and technological links to disbursed populations originating in Orkney.  Prior to this publication, engineered internal flooring drains and paved floors were believed to be a feature that appeared as a technological advance attributed to Roman Iron Age influence.

The paper will appear in Volume 155 of the Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland due to be published in 2026, with the abstract available via UKRI approved GREEN Access on the QUB Pure Platform (https://pure.qub.ac.uk/en/publications/going-with-the-flow-internal-floor-drains-in-middle-late-bronze-a ).

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Cherie Edwards is a Doctoral Researcher in Archeology & Geography at the Queen’s Belfast University. She researches through examination of various elements such as field systems, settlements, ritual sites, trackways, and sites associated with industrial production/natural resource exploitation the project seeks to evaluate landscape memory, climate change and socio-economic drivers as factors in shifting upland settlement patterns previously observed in the archaeological record in the Bronze Age in Ireland and Northern Britain.

Dirk Brandherm is a Reader in Prehistory and Archeaology at the Queen’s Belfast Univeristy. His research focuses on modelling methodologies to investigate earth systems.

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