Denis Shine, co-director of the Blackfriary Community Heritage and Archaeology Project, outlines the work undertaken in the tower of the church.
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Achill Archaeological Field School students survey the probably site of a Late Neolithic or Bronze Age fish trap.
The project co-founder and site co-director gives an overview of the findings in Cutting 6 during the 2015 season.
Project co-founder and site co-director Fin O’Carroll summarizes the results of the 2015 season.
The short courses we run for a wide variety of students the last two weeks of each Achill Island season prove to be a lot of fun!
After a last day of major excavation, the final week at House 3 in Keem Bay involved cleaning, recording and backfilling.
Our goal was to work on the house at Keem Bay and backfill before the final group arrived to excavate elsewhere in the Keem settlement.
Catch up with the first ten weeks of the Blackfriary Community Heritage and Archaeology Project’s sixth season.
Room 25 At Room 25 two more layers were removed. The soil was burnt, soft and wet. Slabs seem to continue deeper. Their position is in horizontal or oblique rows […]
The students learned about the various recording methods this week, and we took a field trip to nearby Achillbeg Island.
After a course on ceramic identification and analysis, we opened up two new trenches to complete the excavation area.
This week, we wanted to make sure we could link the deposits we were working on back to the descriptions contained in the 2009 excavation report.
Our field school has relocated to start a new excavation at Keem Bay at the far western end of the island.
Room 25 One more layer was removed from Room 25. The soil was burnt. Fragmented slabs continue to come to light, especially at the northern part of the Room. (fig.1). […]
Rooms 25 & 29/24 At Room 25 three more layers were removed In the lowest layer the color of the soil turned from dark brown to burnt. At Room 29/24 […]
Our last week at the Cromlech Tumulus was spent planning and recording Quadrant 3 for a final time.
Rooms 25 & 29,24 Room 29,24 is an oblong space leading to Room 25 towards the west (fig.1). The two Rooms are located in the eastern part of the Central […]
Before entering the final week at the Cromlech Tumulus for 2015, we needed to get as much of the building interior excavated as possible.
The 2015 season of the Blackfriary Community Heritage and Archaeology Project has begun!
Happy with our progress to date, we’re now working on interesting issues of the phasing of the church.
