Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the secure button at the end. If you think it is interesting or useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. To help keep the site in operation, please use the amazon search portal at the end of the post - each purchase earns a small amount of advertising revenue**] Today (22 nd August 2013) is a very special day for me! It’s my blog’s second birthday! The stats are pretty impressive: 65 published posts 106 blog followers +81,500 page views OK … it’s not the Huffington Post , but it’s not bad! I had intended to write something for the first birthday of the blog, but with all the commotion going on about the Drumclay Crannog , there just didn’t seem to be the time. This year I wanted to reflect on where the blog came from, what it’s managed to achieve, and where it may be going. At Nendrum, Co. Down August 2011 was a pretty dark time for me. In terms of my c...

[** you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the button at the end.  If you like this post, please consider re-sharing this post via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc .**] Introduction The existence of a bog-butter vessel from the Barony of Erris was brought to the attention of the author during the summer of 1993 while employed as archaeologist to the F Á S-sponsored Erris Survey Office, Belmullet. Since that time I have, sporadically, attempted to collect information on the circumstances of its discovery. For a number of reasons, I have been unsuccessful in this endeavour. As it is now 19 years since I started on this project, I thought the time was well overdue in making this discovery more widely known. Discovery As far as I am aware, the container was discovered within bogland in the townland of Mount Jubilee, in the Barony of Erris, Co. Mayo. Unfortunately, I have never been able to establish the exact location, the circumstances o...