Happy with our progress to date, we’re now working on interesting issues of the phasing of the church.
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Along with clean-up tasks onsite, we are excavating the friary gardens and part of the nave of the church.
This week, we extended the trench over the Danish Ditch and starting to work on the myriad small features that have been revealed in Quadrant 3.
This week, students learned to draw archaeological finds and carefully removed soil layers overlying the interior of the site.
After heavy rain over the weekend, we cleaned up the trench to create a plan and undertake a detailed topographic survey.
The second week at Achill Island marked the beginning of the main student groups to arrive for the summer.
The goal for the first week of the new season was to excavate a pre-bog field wall that connects the Court Tomb in Keel East townland to the Cromlech Tumulus site.
With just a week to go before our season of excavations start, it is quite a frantic time at Achill Archaeological Field School.
We’ve finalized plans for the 2015 season at Achill Island, Ireland, and we have an action-packed summer ahead of us!
Excavation of Bronze Age Round Houses on the southern slopes of Slievemore Mountain on Achill Island
This entry from Achill Island, Ireland, is a description of a small project undertaken in the early spring of 2014 before the main excavations began.
Work at Achill Archaeological Field School continues on a number of fronts, though the 2014 field season ended a little over two months ago.
During the final week of 2014 field work, we offered our assistance to the Achill Historical and Archaeological Society.
This week at Achill Island, Ireland, involved lectures and tours for a new group of students and a short but successful period of excavation.
A number of jobs needed to be completed during the the main excavation’s final week at the site on Achill Island, Ireland.
Work at Achill Island’s Cromlech Tumulus site continues for the twelfth week of excavations this summer.
Entering the final week for the second group of four week students, the recording phase was well under way.
This week was spent training on AutoCad on rainy days and cleaning up trenches for photography and drawings.
Students undertook an introductory ArcGIS course this week and began to reveal deposits exposed in trenches started last week.
Corridor 10 During the last week, the excavation of Corridor 10 was completed and the paved floor was uncovered. The length of the corridor is 25m and it has 7 […]
