Despite being on holiday, news has reached the Stouts in Los Angeles that a new podcast featuring the Beaubec excavations has become our contribution to National Heritage Week. Hear about the Excavations at Beaubec in Amplify Archaeology Podcast Episode 25. In this episode of the popular podcast series, Neil Jackman, Chief Executive of Abarta Heritage, …
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Touching time by John Sunderland In the final days of the excavation I spent quite a lot of time gathering reference material for further works. This included the continuation of photographing people excavating with a variety of tools as reference material for drawings, the first of which is well underway, of Mikala experiencing excavating a …
Despite the inclement start to the final day we had a great turnout to get the cuttings emptied. Neil Jackman, Chief Executive of Abarta Heritage arrived to make a podcast on the Beaubec excavations with Grace assisting. The recording caused a great deal of excitement around the site. Tom and Catherine were emptying the possible …
After morning break the office team; Catriona Devane (Director of the Finds office), Rosanne Meenan (pottery expert), Penny Johnson (environmental archaeologist) and Deirdre Kelly (finds assistant), came outside for an up-to-date tour of the site. Because they are stationed in the yard office and work intensely processing the finds, they miss out on a lot …
We just returned from a fabulous feast at Grace McCullen’s so the blog tonight will be brief. In the morning we had members of the National Monuments Service come to discuss the works being funded by the Community Monuments Fund, granted this year to Beaubec. Conor Brady called in to have a look at the …
There was great excitement on the site when Stefán unearthed a coin, a Drogheda Token (c.1650–70), while cleaning the upper surface of the south barn wall. A phone call to Kieran Campbell filled us in on the historical context of their use in post-Cromwellian Ireland. The kiln is no more and a stony surface underneath …
Touching time by John Sunderland My second drawing is very much underway, very different from the first this homes in on the detail of a wall. Layers of soil have been used thinly, more as washes than textures, and they appear more durable. The difference between the work wet and dry is quite marked (image 1). I …
We were late to the site this morning and there were rumours circulating around the site that the co-directors were travelling around Meath buying up copies of the Irish Times (not entirely true). Our site was featured today in the Irish Times and the Irish Independent thanks to Drogheda journalist Louise Walshe. Thank you Louise! …
Today was an intense one on the site with many remarkable discoveries and many remarkable visitors. The bottoming of cuttings is providing a much clearer picture of the phases of activity on the site. We had been passing by a large greywacke stone up against the corner of the medieval wall for the last two …
The surgical removal of the upper kiln stones has gone very well and we can now see the flue of the earliest phase of the kiln. This partial removal of the kiln has exposed an unexpected blocked up entrance in the barn wall which was not visible until today. Metal objects are turning up in …
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