Robert M Chapple, Archaeologist

I recently became aware that I had a couple of gaps in my collection of Emania, The Bulletin of the Navan Research Group. I promptly popped along to the http://www.curach-bhan.com website and they were soon in my possession. Today's post is a shameless plug for this great Journal and the hard work that Curach Bhán publications do to bring it together. Go on - have a look at their website, browse their wares, order a couple of volumes! If you want to see independent journals & their publishers* survive you've got to support them. Emania – Bulletin of the Navan Research Group 22, 2014 Ranke de Vries: The Ulster Cycle in the Netherlands J.P. Mallory and Gina Baban: Excavations in Haughey’s Fort East Meriel McClatchie: Food Production in the Bronze Age: Analysis of Plant Macro-remains from Haughey’s Fort, Co. Armagh Gina Baban: Late Bronze Age Pottery from the Excavations at Haughey’s Fort East Dirk Brandherm: Late Bronze Age casting debris and other base metal...

If you’ve been paying attention to Irish archaeology over the last week or so, you can’t but be aware of the controversy stoked up by Michael and Myles Gibbons in a recent paper regarding the age and authenticity of the Newgrange ‘roof box’. I haven’t the least intent of weighing in on this topic, and I direct the interested reader to Ken William’s excellent post ‘ Raising the Roof: Comments on the recent Newgrange ‘roof-box’ controversy ’ on his ShadowsandStone blog. He neatly sums up the arguments, the available rebuttals and adds his own detailed analysis. Although it hasn’t stopped me in the past, I’m not about to comment on a situation where I’ve no in depth knowledge or expertise. Instead, I would like to point out that the original Gibbons & Gibbons paper is published in the 2016 issue of Emania , the Bulletin of the Navan Research Group . The publisher is, of course, Berlin’s wonderful curach bhán. I recommend that, to get the fullest picture, you should read the ori...

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