The Lost City of Clonmacnoise Video worksheet Watch the YouTube videos below and answer the questions that follow.
‘The Lost City of Clonmacnoise – Secret of the Stones Excerpt’ (4.03) 1. What is archaeologist Heather King’s controversial theory? 2. How big was Clonmacnoise? 3. List one piece of new technology used during this investigation at Clonmacnoise.
4. What evidence of town planning was discovered?
Follow-up question: Study the image of Clonmacnoise on p. 42 of the textbook and read the questions that surround it. Create two more questions that could be added to this image for a historian to investigate.
(a) (b)
‘The Lost City of Clonmacnoise 3D app’ (3.05) What information does the Clonmacnoise app provide that other sources do not?
Source analysis
Study sources A–G on p. 43 of the textbook and answer the questions below. 1. Find three primary sources that historians have used when investigating Clonmacnoise. (a) (b) (c)
2. List three pieces of new technology that historians have used investigating Clonmacnoise. (a) (b) (c)
3. Select one of the questions on p. 43. Explain how historians and archaeologists have helped each other in answering that question.
