Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the secure button at the right. 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 right - each purchase earns a small amount of advertising revenue **] The evening of Monday 28th of April brought  Dr Greer Ramsey to the Ulster Archaeology Society to talk about the recent find of a gold torc from Corrard, Co. Fermanagh. The President of the society, the wonderful Barrie Hartwell , gave the introductory welcome. He informed the audience that Ramsey had first graduated from Queens’ University Belfast back in 1982, with an undergraduate dissertation on Bronze Age metalwork. He followed this up with a PhD in 1989 on Middle Bronze Age weapons in Ireland. In 1993 he became deputy curator of the Armagh County Museum , before moving to the Ulster Museum in 2014 as curator of Iris...

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the secure button in the column on the right. 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 on the right - each purchase earns a small amount of advertising revenue**] Drumclay crannog under excavation. Source . Regular readers of this blog may be aware that – to put it mildly – I’ve something of an interest in the Drumclay crannog in Enniskillen [ here | here | here | here | here | here ]. So, when the Ulster Archaeology Society announced that they had booked Dr. Nora Bermingham to deliver their December lecture on that very site, I was immediately intrigued ... to say the least! By tradition, all UAS lectures are held in the downstairs lecture hall of the Elmwood Building, at QUB. The last time I was in this hall was in December 2012, when I was speaking to the Societ...