There was an even a proposal for a documentary on the making of said film. Documentary was to be called Sharks of Darkness.
I endorse this message. Although I think it was more of a plot outline than a script.
Calling all UK archaeologists! I am conducting some reasearch on Stratigraphic literacy in the industry. If you work/have worked in archaeology in the UK I would really apprechiate if would fill in this survey!
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Hi Eoghan - have you checked the location on heritagemaps.ie to see if it is within a recorded monument? You might contact NMS or NMI to advise on the location if there is reason to believe it is ancient. Charcoal could be of recent or earlier origin, hard to differentiate in isolation, though!
Looks like no light at the end of the tunnel at #Newgrange....!
Crowd building at #Newgrange and the sky is clear.
It is with a heavy heart that we convey the sad news of the death of our good friend and colleague, Dr Eoin Grogan. May he rest in peace.
Is oth linn go mór a rá go ndeachaigh ár seanchara agus iar-chomhghleacaí, Dr Eoin Grogan, ar shlí na fírinne. Suaimhneas síoraí go raibh aige.
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I think UCD had a Chair of Archaeology created in 1854 as well (although in Ireland, obviously). But Liverpool had a rich history of public museums, including one for Egyptology going back to mid-19th century (a lot of it funded by Joseph Mayer). Museums clearly had non-classical collections too.
At Swim Two Birds
In response to ICOMOS Palestine's February 2025 appeal, archaeologists of conscience everywhere are mobilising. We are calling on our representative bodies to boycott Israel now!
forms.gle/m8De7pW2oG4K... #archaeology #🏺 #eaa2025
Given the innately political nature of #history and #archaeology and its collection, curation, interpretation and display, this was always going to be an action point at the #Smithsonian.
But the National Zoo??
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Only saw it this weekend. Yep (stone is in SW quadrant of cairn as shown, just to SW of the hole in top of mound that is filled with stones). Looks like just one stone was rolled out of the group filling the hole. Other stone with marks in the hole.
Someone appears to have moved a couple of stones on an overgrown mound just behind McArts Fort on Cavehill (above Belfast) exposing a couple of possible cup-marked stones.
#rockart #megalith #archaeology
This is a significant humiliation for the Irish govt as it got bumped from a White House event today.
A search of newspaper archives finds the names McMurphy, O'Banion, McGraw and even the odd O'Day. The various registration acts (alongside anglicisation) seems to have standardized form/spelling of Irish surnames and squeezed out some eclectic variants.
Musk...
This is also compressing centuries of human endeavour into a single narrative episode. For 2300-2000 BC, distribution of lunulae/sun discs/neck rings etc suggests one scope of analysis needs to be Europe-wide. And it's by no means Wessex-centric, either.
On the 'planes of Ballynahatne', near Dundalk. Presumably close to Ballynahattin townland, but now gone. Was already being destroyed ('stones broken up and removed') in 1748.
What if Stonehenge just turned out to be a microcosm of other Stonehenges?
This is a lesser known find from #Newgrange (since it’s the #Solstice) - a gold Roman bracelet terminal inscribed with SCBONS:MB, one of the 4th century AD votive offerings at the site. The MB is 'manibus', 'to the spirits' while 'SCBONS' could be an abbreviated name.
Despite - or probably because of - the long history of research and attention, Stonehenge is now just a kitsch divination pool. Gaze into it and say out loud what you see.
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Thinking tonight about all those people who, for whatever reason, are absolutely dreading Christmas.
It can be a really sad & triggering time for so many.
Take it a day at a time.
You’re not alone x
About 20 years ago archaeologists found what appeared to be evidence of Bronze age (steam) bathing in the Netherlands.
The analysis of what was found was finished last year and you can read the paper here:
www.academia.edu/112022865/A_...
A thread.
'Torc' Hotel is a bit of sublime convergence: the name comes from Torc Waterfall ('Easach Toirc' in Irish, which means 'falls of the wild boar'). The waterfall drains a corrie lake on Mangerton Mt close to where a lunula - in BM - was found (that is the hotel logo).
But is that congruency in ethics illusory if policy/practice/legislation are so different?
An obvious example of divergence is metal-detecting (RoI & NI v GB).
Is state policy/practice largely a nod to scope/sources of collections in national institutions (eg comparing NMI and BM). Potential contradiction in arguing for and legislating for compulsory state ownership of archaeological objects etc but *just in this state* (not yours).
The object itself needs more work (maybe XRF, micro-analysis of object surface where ogham was added, etc). Post 100 AD material culture is generally understudied - by archaeologists anyway - as it's mistaken as 'just Roman imports' (when that IS the material culture).
Michael J O'Kelly published on ogham inscriptions, their transcription and translation (eg corkhist.ie/wp-content/u...). So the lack of fanfare hints that he doubted its antiquity. The Dunraven lunula had ogham added around 1850, so it wouldn't be the only such object with a more recent ogham added.
O'Kelly is disproportionately tight-lipped about the bronze plaque (E56.1715), eg in Carson & O'Kelly (JRSAI 1977) given its obvious/potential significance. Not clear how secure the context is, either. May even have arrived later as a (scholastic) curiosity rather than 4th-5th century.
And another group of three lunulae. One from Cavan (Lissanover), Tyrone (Tullanafoile) and a lunulae that survives as a drawing only but is likely from Co. Antrim. Only variation in layout and motifs is in the number of certain motifs.
