This week we're at #TRA2024 in #Dublin with some exciting news up our sleeve... Watch this space 👀👀

📢 We are delighted to announce the ingest of 'The Irish Stone Axe Project' into the Repository!🪓

This collection sheds light on some of the oldest and most distinctive tools that have survived from prehistoric times in Ireland!

Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-colle…

Launching today the Irish Stone Axe Project: Digital Collection through the Digital Repository of Ireland (DRI). The collection is an image catalogue of 366 axeheads, including scaled photographs, artefact drawings and petrological thin section images.
repository.dri.ie/catalog/8623xr…

We're delighted to see that the Irish Stone Axe Project: Digital Collection led by Professor Gabriel Cooney UCD Archaeology has been made publicly available through the Digital Repository of Ireland!

The project was funded through the Nowlan Digitisation Grants scheme (2022) by #RIAgrants .

Today’s the launch of the Irish Stone Axe Project: Digital Collection

This image catalogue has 366 axeheads from the ISAP database & includes scaled photos, artefact drawings
& petrological thin sections

It's now publicly available through Digital Repository of Ireland🥳 buff.ly/4cUMyXU

Great to see this launched! Some fantastic work from the team, including L and David Stone

The Treaty Stone, Limerick.
#Limerick

King John's Castle, Limerick.
#Archaeology #architecture #heritage

Starting day 2 of the Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (IAI) conference with a presentation on insects in early medieval Ireland from Eva Kourela from UCD Archaeology
The Heritage Council National Monuments Service David Stone Susan Hannah Genders Boyd

Next up Institute of Archaeologists of Ireland (IAI) conference 2024 DP's Edward Pollard presenting on the CHERISH Project
Great to have the opportunity to keep talking about the methodologies developed in response to the effects of #ClimateChange on #Archaeology & some of the amazing results from this project

Great to meet up with #5Dculture partners at Università Ferrara - Dipartimento di Architettura, to plan activities for the final phase of the project & explore new opportunities for reuse of #3D cultural heritage. Good opportunity to present to students & staff on developments @discprog

Thanks for coming David Stone

If you're interested in the work that David & I did, we created a little podcast called Viking-Age Environments and you can listen to it in the usual places:
open.spotify.com/show/4rTRFkf4r…

Cmon lads! footpaths are for walking on!

More CLaSSy stuff on ancient urbanism, this time using zooarchaeology to show that right from the start ancient cities relied on their hinterlands for animal products

Conference this Friday/Sat in Limerick. Looking forward to it!

🎉 We are thrilled to announce the newest member of the DRI is NBG Ireland!

We look forward to working together to ingest the 🌿Irish Herbarium collection🌿- digitally preserving the specimens collected over the past two centuries.

Find out more: dri.ie/news/new-membe…

Congratulations Rebecca Boyd! It was great to attend the launch on Friday.
Rebecca has previously worked with us on the Lake Settlement Project (buff.ly/3Ub5nyP) and has now released this new publication on Viking-age settlements in Ireland. Looking forward to reading!

Are you interested in learning more about Carlow's heritage? Then book your place at the County Carlow Heritage Seminar 2024 this Saturday 13th April. The day promises fascinating talks, interactive workshops, and engaging discussions about the rich heritage of County Carlow.

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Rain at Ballymoon Castle!

youtu.be/1Rmz1BUukPw

They've taken the roads in!!!!
#Kilkenny #Storm #rain