Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the button at the end. If you think it is interesting or useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. **] Preface At the start of the year I set myself a personal target of providing in-depth reviews of four consecutive issues of Archaeology Ireland for this blog. While this is the third in the series, I’m running quite slow as the fourth edition for 2012 (No. 102) is already in the shops. Nonetheless, I hope readers enjoy this review and consider going out and buying their own copies, or better still, getting a regular subscription! Talk to the good people at Wordwell Books here and tell them I sent you! Robert M Chapple In 'A font of majuscule proportions at Tallaght', Chris Corlett reports on possibly the largest font in Ireland. It is carved from a large granite boulder, 1.65m x 1.6m x 0.6m thick and, Corlett estimates that it is approximately six times bi...

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the button at the end. If you think the review is useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. **] Preface: I am delighted to again welcome Rena Maguire to the blog. Rena is an undergraduate student at QUB, in her final year. She is currently working on her undergraduate thesis: Iron Age horse harness Y pieces: function, manufacture and typologies . Robert M Chapple *          *          * School of Geography, Archaeology and Palaeoecology: Past Cultural Change lunchtime seminar, 4th December 2012 There were no spare seats left in G43 seminar room. Instead, stellar IQs perched on the edges of benches beside microscopes, on tables - anywhere they could get a place to sit. If there’s such a thing as a rock star in Northern Irish archaeology, Richard Warner probably is it. And on December 4th 2012, he arrived in QUB...