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Archaeologist - all about the gold and archaeology https://independent.academia.edu/MaryCahill
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Great to hear more about this important bog body discovery especially that tge remains are female which is very unusual in this context. www.rte.ie/news/ulster/...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Caught in a trap? This deer can’t walk out… Celebrating the re-mounting, conservation, and scanning of the beautiful Banagher Cross shaft. Soon, it will be on display at the Words on the Wave exhibition, National Museum of Ireland, Kildare Street. #NMI2025 #NMIBlog www.museum.ie/en-IE/Collec...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

What are these odd looking scraps of gold sheet you may wonder? Well, they are fragments of two LBA gorgets belonging to objects found >200 years ago, originally in the collection of @ria.ie but now in @nmireland.bsky.social Meant to fully check them out years ago. A curators work is never done

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

Says Brigid enough of codology Mythology and archaeology I’ve had it up to me neck I don’t give a feck It’s all madness and pseudiology #brigid #imbolc

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

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submitted 22 days ago • 4 comments

📚 SALE! The paperback of my book, A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain, is currently on offer with approximately 20% off! £39.99 ➡️ £31.99 An IDEAL gift for the special person who really wants to know how dirhams got from Central Asia to Skye! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 www.routledge.com/A-Viking-Mar...

submitted 22 days ago • 0 comments

A very welcome arrival in today’s post. The much anticipated publication of Barry Raftery’s excavation at Rathgall, Co. Wicklow. Beautifully produced by Wordwell and skilfully brought together by Katharina Becker and a team of specialists. Barry would be so proud.

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Great thread on amber

submitted 26 days ago • 3 comments

Many significant gold objects of the Bronze Age are in @nmireland.bsky.social because of 19th century collectors whose private collections form the core of national museums. One was Dean Henry Dawson who acquired a LBA gorget from Borrisnoe, Co. Tipperary in 1836. One of only nine to survive.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Tom Gauld perfectly sums up my current state of hope and anticipation…

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

A great @nmireland.bsky.social story in today’s @irishtimes.com

submitted 28 days ago • 0 comments

I’ve made the leap and reached for the sky so looking forward to meeting old friends, followers and followees. More about prehistoric gold and archaeology to come like the Shannongrove gorget from Co. Limerick

submitted 29 days ago • 15 comments