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The Banagher Cross shaft. Carefully carved sandstone pillar decorated as described in the caption

Two bearded figures entangled in interlace ornament

A deer with its leg caught in a trap

A figure on horseback carrying a crozier

High Cross Shaft • Banagher • Offaly

The carved depictions are superb, they show:

• four human figures who are tangled with legs and interlaced hair.

• a stag with its leg caught in a trap.

• a man on horseback carrying a crozier

• and a lion or similarly fierce beast with a protruding tongue.

#CastlepookCaveProject2025

Prof. Frank McDermott, @ucddublin.bsky.social Geology, one of our collaborators on the project, visited us to take speleothem samples.

Great to see & collab with Frank.
He was one of my lecturers when I was an undergrad in UCD Science!

@ria.ie @researchireland.ie

A medieval stone effigy of a man in the garb of a bishop

Tomb effigy • Ardfert Cathedral • Kerry

This fine effigy depicts a person in the garb of a bishop, wearing a low mitre and carrying a crozier. With a ring visible on his right hand.

#Archaeology #SpéirGhorm #Ireland #IrishHistory 🏺

The ancient Byzantine Church of St Porphyrios, Gaza.
Founded 425CE.
Photographed by the Ecole Biblique 1922.
Bombed by the IDF 2024.

From the exhibition Trésors Sauvés de Gaza - 5000 ans d'histoire at L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris

There's still time to sign up for my 3 workshops at the Milwaukee Irish Fest Summer School next week on Irish America--Pioneers of Irish America: From St. Brendan to Jamestown--Irish in the U.S. Civil War--“Dangerous” Irish Women--Registration Details: irishfestsummerschool.com/Summer-Schoo...

The gables of a ruined medieval church soar from swallowing sand

Teaghlach Éinne • Inis Mór

The graveyard that surrounds Teaghlach Éinne is said to be the burial place of St Éanna and over a hundred other saints.

Inis Mór is a true island of saints and scholars!

#SpéirGhorm #Ireland #Archaeology 🏺

A 'travel stone' type of runestone! Elite Vikings liked to show off (a) that they were well travelled, and (b) that they were both literate and able to afford a rune-carver.

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Digitising away… Learn more about the diverse work we carry out at the CBA.

Digitising old archaeological drawings by hand isn’t easy, but it’s crucial work! 🖥️

For #ADayInArchaeology, @ullamr.bsky.social shares how they're bringing the Nepi Survey (1999-2000) findings to life despite key challenges 👉 shorturl.at/HdQhs

#FestivalOfArchaeology

Homotherium hadarensis ambushing unfortunate Australopithecus afarensis #Sciart

Messy start

@ruthfcarden.bsky.social

a pair of machairodontines laying in a snow-covered field; they look quite robust, but i'm unsure if they are smilodon or a different taxon like homotherium

a baby elasmotherium and mother

a glyptodont in a grassy plain

a baby giant ground sloth (unsure of taxon) clings to its mother's back as the mother climbs a cliff-face

AMAZING NEWS!
apple tv has just announced a NEW pleistocene-focused series of #prehistoricplanet! streaming on november 26th

The intricate Cross of Cong on display in the National Museum of Ireland

The Cross of Cong • Mayo

Named after the historic Mayo village where it was kept for centuries, the Cross of Cong is thought to have been made for the important diocescan centre at Tuam.

It was commissioned by the King of Connacht, Toirrdelbach Ua Conchobair in c.1123.

#SpéirGhorm #Medieval

Thistle brooch from the Skaill Hoard

Weapons from Westness 12 Viking burial.

Tom Horne at the Govan Sarcophagus.

The Bogle Stone, an early medieval recumbent carved cross stone in the Govan Stones

I thought I'd try a WhatsApp channel, which you can join at the following link!

Dr Tom Horne's Viking Age: An Early Medieval Archaeology & History Channel channel on WhatsApp: whatsapp.com/channel/0029...

Yesterday, Catherine McGuinness Research & Education Officer with Cavan County Museum & I brought 18 cave bones from last year’s @ria.ie (RIA) funded Castlepook cave excavation to 14CHRONO for radiocarbon dating.

1/n

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YouTube video by Hat Trick Comedy Father Ted | End Of The Ice Age

Happy "End of the Ice Age" to all who celebrate. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNTI...

An aerial view of the medieval complex on the Rock of Cashel in Tipperary

The cover of the new book Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland by Patrick Gleeson

Thrilled to see my picture of the Rock of Cashel adorns the cover of this important new book by Dr Patrick Gleeson!

Landscapes of Kingship in Early Medieval Ireland brings together multidisciplinary evidence to examine the evolution of kingship and society.

#Ireland #Archaeology 🏺 #SpéirGhorm

HEY! I KNOW THAT DRAWING AND ARTIST!!!!

Day 10:
#CastlepookCaveProject2025
Lots of collabs &visitors to site past few days incl today with Cavan County Museum Education & Research Officer Catherine Cahill & early career commercial archaeologist Andrew Downey. Many well preserved bones found. 2 days left, final push!
@ria.ie

#zooarch 🏺

Hawk Stone Standing Stone (Menhir) in Oxfordshire, England

This message was brought to you by the Hawk Stone appreciation society, est. 1998 www.megalithic.co.uk... (thanks Celia Haddon and Paul Bennett)
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Day 7: day off and rest, read, take a walk, wash clothes … rest

#CastlepookProject2025
@ria.ie

Day 2 current view …

The rain and high humidity this morning gave way to a glorious afternoon with a cooler breeze.

Castlepook cave research archaeological excavation 2025, funded by @ria.ie

#PALAEOIreland
#IrishCaveBones

End of Day 2 & we found some reindeer and hare teeth and bones.

A good day at Castlepook cave, Co. Cork funded research archaeological excavation.

#PALAEOIreland

@ria.ie
@ucddublin.bsky.social

A stone medieval effigy of a woman in a tall headdress

The tomb effigy of Honoria Grace (d.1596) in St. Canice's Cathedral, Kilkenny.

Honoria's elaborate headdress, the rings on her fingers, and the voluminous sleeves all show that she was a wealthy woman and a bit of a fashionista.

Or maybe a batman fan.

YouTube video by Rubicon Archaeology Limited American Archaeology: Finding George Washington's Lost Tavern - with Dr. Terence Christian

Happy 4th of July to my American pals! Here's my chat with a US chum, Dr Terence Christian, about his hunt for George Washington in Pennsylvania with my Canadian pal, Dr Amanda Charland 🔎 🏠

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Rathgurren, Co. Galway, Ireland
Archaeology excavation led by @michellecomber.bsky.social of NUI Galway

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#IrishArchaeology

@stoneclub.bsky.social heres some timelapse stones

A curved horn incised with decoration in Monaghan County Museum

A c.16–17th century hunting or drinking horn found in the vicinity of Rossmore Castle, County Monaghan.

On display in the Monaghan County Museum.

#Ireland #SpéirGhorm #Archaeology 🏺

Echoes of the Isles
Cross Slab
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