Castles in Communities Ireland Field Program
Author(s): Samuel Connell; Kathryn Maurer; Chad Gifford; Niall Brady
Year: 2018
Summary
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The 200 pound pig slowly turns on the spit for hours while a few feet away students from California trowel through excavations at Ballintober Castle. A marquee is set up as villagers busily prepare for Heritage Weekend, which they pushed up to mid July to accommodate the field school and 70 people staying in the village. In the next few days there will be story telling, sports in the castle, tours by the archaeologists, lectures about the geophysical work, and more BBQs. In fact, this sort of thing has been going full stop for five weeks each of the past three summers. All of this happens as part of the Castles in Communities project which is a unique combination of research and community involvement. The following briefly tries the capture the spirit of the program and share its successes.
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Castles in Communities Ireland Field Program. Samuel Connell, Kathryn Maurer, Chad Gifford, Niall Brady. Presented at The 82nd Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, Washington, DC. 2018 ( tDAR id: 442740)
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Keywords
Geographic Keywords
Europe: Western Europe
Spatial Coverage
min long: -13.711; min lat: 35.747 ; max long: 8.965; max lat: 59.086 ;
Record Identifiers
Abstract Id(s): 22333