Radicarbon, the Recession and me
[**If you think this post is useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc.**] For those of you who don’t already know, I run the Irish Radiocarbon & Dendrochronological Dates facebook page. The point of the page is the promotion of archaeological dates in general and the grandiosely titled ‘ Catalogue of Radiocarbon Determinations and Dendrochronology Dates ’ in particular. The Catalogue is a free-to-all, downloadable resource for Irish archaeology. I started keeping this list in 2007, purely as a personal reaction to an immediate research need. I had just received the radiocarbon dates from one of my excavations – a Bronze Age burnt mound – when a colleague said to me something along the lines of: ‘wouldn’t it be interesting to compare the dates of this one and others … you’d never know what you might find … pity there’s no easy way to do it’. For him it was a passing remark, but for me it has resulted in (so far) four years of research, c...
