New volunteers on site this morning. Hopefully not baaaaad workers....
Well there's definitely some archaeology in these trenches... Below Trinity Church at Glendalough.
Well there's definitely some archaeology in these trenches... Below Trinity Church at Glendalough.
Hmmm. If we find another few of these this Medieval site might become interesting 🤔 🤣
It's [hopefully] going to be a really interesting couple of weeks!
We're doing a research dig at the Viking site at Woodstown Waterford, with support from @ria.ie, @nationalmons.bsky.social and Waterford City & County Council, in a collaborative project between Irish & Norwegian archaeologists
First day on site at Glendalough for our @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social training excavation. Only 40 (FORTY!!) people on site today. Great progress - in rather mixed weather, ending up with our first trowelling lines of the season. And one piece of medieval ceramic before the end of the day as well...
First day on site at Glendalough for our @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social training excavation. Only 40 (FORTY!!) people on site today. Great progress - in rather mixed weather, ending up with our first trowelling lines of the season. And one piece of medieval ceramic before the end of the day as well...
An interesting day at Glendalough...a Revd John Wesley Methodist plate was not on my list of expected finds... C19 Methodist Chapel near(ish) in Rathdrum. Or possible link to C19 Cornish miners in the area.?
Also very, very midgey...
An interesting day at Glendalough...a Revd John Wesley Methodist plate was not on my list of expected finds... C19 Methodist Chapel near(ish) in Rathdrum. Or possible link to C19 Cornish miners in the area.?
Also very, very midgey...
‘The REF has now morphed into a hugely expensive, attention-engrossing status marker. Few things would improve the intellectual culture of universities more quickly than the complete abolition of this flawed and coercive exercise.’
Stefan Collini on higher education.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
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The problems with Britain’s universities are systemic and deep-rooted, not just local or contingent. Yet political and...
