Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

[** If you like this post, please make a donation to the IR&DD project using the secure button at the end. If you think it is interesting or useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. To help keep the site in operation, please use the amazon search portal at the end of the post - each purchase earns a small amount of advertising revenue**] The Knockgraffon Late Bronze Age House. JG O'Donoghue. Reproduced by permission. Over the last while I’ve become a big fan of the art of JG O’Donoghue, the Cork-based artist and illustrator. He specialises in archaeological and heritage themes, but he’s also available for commission and sells his work via an on-line shop [ Facebook | Website | Storenvy ]. If all this wasn’t enough, he also runs a blog: Líníocht Blog . In a recent post on his Facebook page, he examined a possible Middle Bronze Age byre at Knockgraffon, Co. Tipperary and produced a reconstruction that was both a beautiful image and directly ba...

Summer 2012. ISSN 0790-892x [** If you think the review is useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc . **] Sometimes it’s the little things that make you realise your age – and not always in a good way. The grey hair, the aching joints, your colleagues disbelief that ‘you’re how old?’ … these are definitely not great ways to be reminded of your advancing years. But there are other ways, too. Ways that make you proud to have been part of something; that allow you to say ‘yes I was there … and yes, I am that old!’ I would definitely put the arrival of the 100th issue of Archaeology Ireland into that latter category! While the inception of the magazine was (just) before my entry into archaeology, I have been a long-time reader, subscriber and occasional contributor to it. I remember the first time I saw it for sale – it was in Charlie Byrne’s Bookshop in Galway (not the current fantastic temple to the printed word in Middle Street, but its much more humble ...

Victoria Ginn & Stuart Rathbone (eds.). Oxbow books, Oxford, 2012. xv+301pp. ISBN 978-1-84217-464-7. £26.95 ( via Oxbow ) or £33.25 ( via Amazon ). [** If you think the review is useful, please re-share via Facebook, Google+, Twitter etc. **] Corrstown: A Coastal Community presents the results of the excavation and analysis of 76 Bronze Age structures excavated by Archaeological Consultancy Services Ltd . during 2002 and 2003. Along with the well-publicised Bronze Age village, an Early Christian rath and rock-cut souterrain were investigated, together with the recovery of a small collection of Neolithic pottery. Chapter 1: Introduction sets the scene, outlining the development-led background from geophysical prospection, surface collection of artefacts and test-trenching. This led to further test-trenches and eventually, in October 2002, an excavation directed by Malachy Conway. What was initially regarded as a small prehistoric settlement and an Early Christian rath,...