Posts

Showing posts with the label XRF

A twisted torc from Corrard, Co. Fermanagh | Dr Greer Ramsey UAS Lecture| Review

Image
[** 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...