Here's a place to post and discuss pictures of sites or artifacts of general archaeological interest. If you are not sure where to post up material you have seen or found, post here. Please note that all archaeological objects must be reported to the National Museum of Ireland. See the stickies on the landing page.
http://www.archaeologyinfo.com/ so since this is the archaeology forum thought some helpful links on the subject might be nice...Ill start off with the one above there ;)
Definition of an archaeological object. (*chattel is any personal property other than real estate.) The Law on Metal Detecting in Ireland The National Monuments Acts 1930 to 2004 provide for the protection of the archaeological heritage of Ireland (portable and built heritage) with the National Monuments (Amendment) Act,…
MOD Note 07/05/2013. Thanks to Bogman for keeping this amazing thread alive over the years. We have removed chat and broken links so the thread is easier to browse. Please feel free to add any images of archaeological monuments you wish but please add the date, location and description of the monument in the image. Please…
My mother used to picnic at the Rock of Dunamase. I think she used to tell us that the O'Mores attacked/were attacked during a banquet and slaughtered the hosts/were slaughtered by the hosts. I understand that is is folklore and probably historically incorrect but I would be interested to know if anyone knows of this…
Have a few of these on the land heading up the hill, have always been told they were roads tho now they are basically wide shallow drains while the ground on both sides is dry Would the 'road' have been built up with branches and then that was the track?
was in france recentley and came across this place Guedelon - its basically a medeivel castle being built, from scratch using medeival building techniques great day out if your round auxerre (its about an hour south) you can wander round workshops and the castle itself, really interesting there were 1/2 hour queues to get…
Just wondering if anyone else pondered whether stone circles were painted? Anyone else have any thoughts on this? This is one of the Athgreany stones, I had to change brightness and contrast to see features on the stone, then when I considered the colour change I thought of paint or other colouring effects of the Bronze…
As many of you know the Historic Evironment Viewer on archaeology.ie is one of the most amazing archaeology mapping tools made. But does anyone know the best way to export high DPI screen captures from it?
I'm finding that, reading bits and pieces about archaeology online, there seems to be "trends" of things that are talked about more at different times. Right now it seems cursus-es (or cursii or whatever the plural form is 😁) and booleying huts are all the rage. My question is, for round shaped booleying huts, how can one…
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