The Shindig | A Rubicon Archaeology Podcast

The stories told in animal bones with David Romera Fernández

Thu, 02 Apr 2026 23:05:00 GMT

What can a cow bone tell you about a medieval army? More than you'd think.

In this episode of The Shindig host Gretchen Kessler sits down with David Romera Fernández, for a fascinating deep-dive into zooarchaeology.

In this episode, you'll discover:

What zooarchaeology actually is — and why it's not just "old bones"
How to tell a cow's age from its skeleton — and why that matters for understanding ancient populations
What cut marks on bones reveal about butchery, diet, wealth, and gender in ancient societies
The difference between a wild boar and a domesticated pig — written into the bone itself
Why Ireland desperately needs more zooarchaeologists (spoiler: there are almost none)
A story involving a police stop, a van full of medieval bones, and very long hair

David also shares the evidence for ancient pet burials, healed animal fractures that hint at real human-animal bonds, and explains how the study of animal remains is quietly rewriting what we know about women's roles in history.

Oh, and if you've ever wanted to time travel? David's answer will take you further back than anyone before him on this show. 70 million years further back, to be precise.

The Shindig is produced by Rubicon Archaeology one of Ireland's leading archaeological consultancies, with teams working across Ireland, the UK, and Germany. We believe great archaeology starts with great people, and this podcast is our way of introducing you to them.

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Bronze Age & Wine with Ben Spillane

Fri, 27 Mar 2026 00:05:00 GMT

In this episode of The Shindig, Gretchen chats with archaeologist Ben Spillane, a specialist who has worked with Rubicon on a number of projects including creamtion cemeteries, stone beads and more. This conversation is about the fascinating world of the Bronze Age.

Expert insight, relaxed conversation, and a glass of wine, this is history brought to life.

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Conflict Archaeology with Damian Shiels & Alex Lee

Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:01:00 GMT

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In this episode, we’re kicking things off with a brand new host and diving straight into a fascinating topic: Conflict Archaeology.

Our guests bring two very different — but equally exciting — perspectives:

🧠 Damian Shiels explores conflict archaeology from an academic point of view, helping us understand the real stories behind historic battlefields and artefacts.

⚔️ Alex, a reenactment specialist and experimental archaeologist, brings history to life by showing how people actually lived, fought, and experienced conflict in the past.

Together, they break down how archaeology helps us understand conflict in a way that goes far beyond textbooks — making the past feel real, human, and relevant today.

At Rubicon, it’s all about Managing Risk, Delivering Quality — and uncovering the stories that shape our world.

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25 Years of Rubicon with Colm Moloney

Mon, 18 Aug 2025 05:00:00 GMT

🎙️ The Shindig: A Special Interview with Colm Moloney

In this special edition of The Shindig, host Luke Barry sits down with Colum Moloney, founder of Rubicon Archaeology, to celebrate the company’s 25th anniversary. Thought lost to a corrupted hard drive, this insightful interview was recovered and now serves as a time capsule of Rubicon’s journey from humble beginnings to international expansion.

Colm shares his personal story, from discovering his passion for archaeology and history in primary school to founding one of Ireland’s leading archaeological firms. He reflects on the challenges of fieldwork, the evolution of commercial archaeology, and the excitement of managing large-scale infrastructure projects across Ireland, the UK, and Germany.

We also explore Rubicon’s recent rebrand, the launch of new offices, and the company’s role in Europe’s largest civil engineering project, SuedLink. With anecdotes, advice for aspiring archaeologists, and a touch of nostalgia, this episode is a must-listen for anyone curious about the past and the future of archaeology.

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Echoes from the Trenches: WW1 Unearthed – with Simon Verdegem

Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:00:00 GMT

The incredibly well preserved WW1 trenches and battlefields of Flanders fields on the Western Front are the focus of this remarkable interview with Simon Verdegem, a battlefield archaeologist for BAAC Vlaanderen, Skylarcs, and Head Archaeologist for Dig Hill 80, an internationally crowdfunded WW1 battlefield archaeology project.

Join Dr. Tom and Luke as they investigate the fascinating and haunting world of World War I archaeology with Simon, an expert in uncovering the stories of soldiers on the Western Front. In this episode, we explore the impact of trench warfare on the combatants, the emotional toll of excavating battlefields and their dead, and the remarkable discoveries that shed light on the daily lives of soldiers. Simon shares his insights on trench construction and its evolution and the incredible preservation of archaeological finds, from the trenches, tunnels and bunkers that look little changed since 1918, to the harrowing remains of a soldier’s cuddly toy.

We also discuss the dangers of unexploded ordnance (UXO), the vital but traumatic journey of identifying fallen soldiers, and the international success of crowdfunding Dig Hill 80, an astonishingly intact battlefield at Wytschaete near Ypres.

#WW1 #FWW #Archaeology #History #WesternFront #FirstWorldWar #WorldWar1

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Roman Villa Complex with Francesca Giarelli & Louis Stafford

Wed, 11 Dec 2024 01:05:36 GMT

In this episode, Dr. Tom and Luke dive into the rich history of the Brookside Meadows Roman villa complex! From Bronze Age and Iron Age activity to not one, but two Roman villas and rare evidence for potential early medieval life, Red River Archaeology Group Site Director Francesca Giarelli and Project Manager Louis Stafford uncover the site's evolution and the significance of an area being developed for housing by Barratt and David Wilson Homes.

Explore the intriguing evidence of cult activities at a possible shrine or temple, the wealth of Roman artefacts that includes one of the most remarkable assemblage of painted wall plaster yet discovered in Roman England, and the fascinating challenges of identifying post-Roman activity. Hear about the team's dedication, the project's impact on the local community, and the global interest it has garnered. Join us for a captivating journey through time and archaeology!

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A Lost Anglo-Saxon Estate and the Viking Great Army

Wed, 04 Dec 2024 01:00:19 GMT

A sensational early medieval archaeological discovery in northern England! A lost Anglo-Saxon estate centred on textile making and metal-working that, amazingly, also appears to have been used as a campsite for the Viking Great Army as they campaigned in Northumbria and Scotland has been uncovered in Northumberland. Prompted by the finds from responsible metal detectorists who reported their finds to the Portable Antiquities Scheme, a team of archaeologists, supported by community volunteers and metal detectorists, has been unearthing evidence of a remarkable early Anglo-Saxon estate centre with stunningly well preserved evidence for near-industrial levels of fabric weaving and metal-working dating back to the sixth-century AD, a sensationally early find for the region.

What’s more, the Anglo-Saxon estate, which appears to have continued into the Viking Age, is producing tantalising evidence – first noted by metal detectorists – that the site of the estate was used as a camp by a northern section of the infamous Viking Great Heathen Army, a scourge and destroyer of several Anglo-Saxon kingdoms and occupier of most of Northumbria.

The site, known as ‘Near Felton,’ is of tremendous importance, not only to our understanding of the early Anglo-Saxon period in the north of England, but also to the dimly understood activities of the Viking Great Army in northern Northumbria and the lands of what is today’s Scotland. Join Tom and Luke as they speak with archaeologists Jane Kershaw, Jane Harrison, Kathryn Murphy, and Lynn Amadio about their work with local volunteers and metal detectorists to unearth a site of international importance.

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Places For The Living Places For The Dead - With James Eogan & James Hession

Mon, 17 Jun 2024 00:30:32 GMT

This weeks episode features James Eogan & James Hession. They spoke to us ahead of the book launch of the incredible "Places For The Living Place For The Dead - Archaeological discoveries on the N25 New Ross Bypass".

In this episode they discussed the archaeological significance of the new Ross Bypass for the N25, with a focus on the area's prehistoric and medieval history, and the importance of minimizing the impact of infrastructure projects on archaeological sites. They explore the findings from the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods in Ireland, as well as the archaeological evidence of Bronze Age burials. Lastly, they highlighted the discovery of a well-preserved late medieval farmstead and the potential insights it offers into the daily lives of ordinary people during this period.

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Remarkable Journeys of Early Medieval Silver – with Dr. Jane Kershaw and Prof. Rory Naismith

Tue, 28 May 2024 00:31:23 GMT

In this episode, Dr. Jane Kershaw and Prof. Rory Naismith discuss the origins, sources, and circulation of a revolutionary silver coin currency during the ‘long 8th century’ in early medieval northwestern Europe.

Jane and Rory are co-authors of a transformative new study, which can be read about in the Antiquity Open Access paper, ‘Byzantine plate and Frankish mines: the provenance of silver in north-west European coinage during the Long Eighth Century (c. 660–820)’ – Jane Kershaw, Stephen W. Merkel, Paolo D’Imporzano and Rory Naismith (2024).

Jane and Rory explore the remarkable provenance of this silver, its composition, and sources, including the initial use of recycled Byzantine metal from the Eastern Roman Empire and the subsequent dominance of Frankish mined silver. Speaking with Dr. Tom Horne and Luke Barry, Jane and Rory highlight the importance of their research in shedding light on this fascinating period of northwestern European history, with its huge characters like Charlemagne and Offa and its vital economic and exchange developments, and the potential of their new, minimally-destructive, analytical methodology for future study.

Read the Antiquity Open Access paper: ‘Byzantine plate and Frankish mines: the provenance of silver in north-west European coinage during the Long Eighth Century (c. 660–820)’ – Jane Kershaw, Stephen W. Merkel, Paolo D’Imporzano and Rory Naismith (2024) https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.33

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Irish Greenways and Rejuvenating Historic Infrastructures - With Dr. Enda O'Flaherty

Mon, 15 Apr 2024 00:00:04 GMT

In this episode, our own Dr. Enda O Flaherty talks about heritage infrastructure preservation in Ireland, with a particular focus on the fascinating development of 'greenways', which can be defined as linear active-travel paths, parks, or areas of cultural interest that often incorporate historic (linear) infrastructure like defunct railway lines. We explore the challenges of balancing the needs of new and rejuvenated infrastructure with the heritage value of existing environments and delve into the impacts of infrastructure projects on rural Ireland and the potential of greenways to provide alternatives to car reliance. Importantly, Enda discusses the importance of the distinction of creating a culturally and historically resonant 'place' versus a mere 'space'.

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Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns, with Dr. Rebecca Boyd

Mon, 01 Apr 2024 23:28:26 GMT

In this episode, we talk to Dr. Rebecca Boyd about the fascinating topic of Viking-Age towns in Ireland, from how Vikings helped create the first urban settlements, to discovering the smells, sights and sounds of daily life within a home. For the big picture, we chat about Scandinavian-influenced urbanism across Viking-Age Ireland and Europe, but balance this with a focus on the microscopic patterns and cadences of life and work in Viking-Age town houses in towns like Dublin. The vital role of developer-led archaeology in the study of Viking-Age towns in Ireland is key to much of Rebecca's research and Rebecca's new book, Exploring Ireland's Viking-Age Towns: Houses and Homes, which is a brilliant exploration of towns and urban life and one we heartily recommend to all of our listeners!

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Building a Broch - with the Caithness Broch Project

Wed, 20 Mar 2024 08:13:59 GMT

In this episode, Dr. Tom talks with Kenneth and Kirsty from the Caithness Broch Project, a pioneering scheme to build a ‘broch’ – massive Iron-Age drystone towers concentrated in Caithness, northern Scotland – for the first time in 2,000 years.

Brochs are the tallest prehistoric structures found in Britain or Ireland, with these ‘pinnacles of prehistoric Scottish architecture’ potentially reaching over 15m in height! Their use is not certain – community-centred domestic use seems most likely – but the monumental scale suggests they were built to impress and act as highly-visible centres of their farming communities.

The challenge of building a broch in the modern day is huge, but the Project has now selected the perfect site for the Big Broch Build and its mission to ensure heritage-based regeneration of Caithness, a region facing massive depopulation and job losses, can now continue apace!

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Taking The Devil's Dollar: Blockade Runners and The Confederate Clyde with Dr. Ryan K McNutt

Mon, 19 Feb 2024 12:18:30 GMT

The Devil's Dollar: In this US Civil War episode, Dr. Ryan K. McNutt talks about the Union's attempted naval blockade of Confederate ports. More than this, however, Ryan discusses the dark secret at the heart of official British neutrality: Clyde-built 'blockade runners', fast and agile shallow-drafted paddle steamers that could evade Union patrols on their short dashes to and from the Caribbean, were key to the Confederate war economy, bringing in European arms and luxury goods to Southern ports in exchange for the slave-harvested cotton that kept the British economy growing. Shocking and fascinating in equal measure, Ryan talks about his research into the dark dealings of the Glasgow and Clyde shipbuilders and discusses the remarkable range of British, Irish and Continental industries kept afloat by the devil's dollar.

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Trumpington's Anglo-Saxon Teen VIP Revealed - With Dr. Alice Rose, Dr. Emma Brownlee & Dr. Sam Leggett

Mon, 22 Jan 2024 00:30:32 GMT

We enter the world of the 7th-century Anglo-Saxon Trumpington Cross burial, from the vanishingly rare - and stunning - gold and garnet pectoral cross found on the teenager's chest and the bed on which she was buried, to this young woman's distant origins in central Europe. Drs. Leggett, Rose and Brownlee talk about a fascinating range of topics, including potential cultural links between early medieval England and Southern Germany, the significance of pectoral crosses found in high-status female burials, the role of women in the Christianization of England, isotopic and aDNA analysis in archaeology, diet and mobility in the past, and the bed burial phenomenon in 7th-century Germany and England. We also talk about the ongoing exhibition, Beneath Our Feet: Archaeology of the Cambridge Region, 'a new exhibition at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology explores the traces of where people have lived, worked and died for thousands of years in Cambridgeshire', which features the Trumpington Cross burial.

Read the University of Cambridge web story about the burial and the exhibition here: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/trumpington-cross-burial-facial-reconstruction-new-evidence-revealed

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Meet our Archaeologists - with Hannah Sims

Mon, 08 Jan 2024 00:30:21 GMT

We chat with the Red River Archaeology Group's Graphics & IT Manager Hannah Sims about her life in archaeology and the fascinating and intricate world of archaeological illustration!

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The Bone Chests - With Dr. Cat Jarman

Mon, 30 Oct 2023 00:01:56 GMT

The Bone Chests of Winchester Cathedral: We talk with Dr. Cat Jarman about her best-selling book, The Bone Chests, which tells the remarkable archaeological and historical detective story of the Winchester Cathedral chests that purport to hold the remains of some of the most famous kings, queens and bishops in the history of England and Wessex! It's an amazing true story of cutting-edge science and ancient bones, and the tumultuous centuries the skeletal remains have seen and - despite the best efforts of Roundhead iconoclast soldiers - survived.

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Irish Prehistoric Rock Art - with Clare Busher O'Sullivan

Sun, 15 Oct 2023 23:01:52 GMT

We marvel at the beauty of the prehistoric phenomenon of 'Atlantic Rock Art', most known for its distinctive yet enigmatic cup-and-ring marks, that swept Atlantic Europe from the Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age, but did you know about the race to record and protect it? In this episode, Clare Busher O'Sullivan talks with Tom about her fascinating work on Atlantic Rock Art in south-west Ireland, and the high-tech drive to record and help preserve the open-air examples of these beautiful and ancient stone carvings before they are damaged or even destroyed by a combination of natural and human-led processes.

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Neolithic Crannogs in the Western Isles of Scotland – A Dig It! Special with Prof. Duncan Garrow

Mon, 02 Oct 2023 09:27:35 GMT

An almost incredible discovery has been made in Scotland’s stunning Western Isles: human-made islets in lochs, known in Scotland and Ireland as crannogs, were being constructed by Neolithic communities. Previously, these remarkable sites, phenomena both of waterside habitation and ritual activity, had been thought to be a development of the Late Bronze Age or early Iron Age, but new archaeological research is showing far earlier origins, in a revelation with major ramifications for how we view not only the Scottish but also the European Neolithic periods.

Join us for this Dig It! special as we chat with Professor Duncan Garrow of the Islands of Stone project and the University of Reading to hear about the amazing survivals of Neolithic pottery and organic artefacts that are changing the way we look at these wonderful feats of house engineering and ritual practice.

Islands of Stone: https://crannogs.soton.ac.uk/

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Dig It! is coordinated by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and primarily funded by Historic Environment Scotland.

Dig It! is a hub for Scottish archaeology coordinated by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland. Our mission is to increase understanding of and engagement with archaeology for Scotland-based audiences by providing promotion and support to the heritage sector and enabling other sectors and excluded communities to connect with archaeology. One example of this is our annual Scotland Digs summer fieldwork campaigns and for 2023, we’re excited to be working with the Red River Archaeology Group to produce special episodes of The Shindig podcast to showcase a few of the fantastic archaeological projects taking place across the country.

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Digging a Lost Viking Cemetery – with Adam Parsons

Mon, 11 Sep 2023 10:19:00 GMT

A Viking Cemetery in northern England: Adam Parsons of Oxford Archaeology tells us about the spectacular Cumwhitton Viking cemetery in Cumbria, subject of the brilliant ‘Shadows in the Sand: Excavation of a Viking-age Cemetery at Cumwhitton’, which Adam co-authored.

Initially discovered by metal detectorists Peter Adams and George when they found two Viking-style oval brooches, Oxford Archaeology excavated what turned out to be one of the most spectacular and important Viking cemeteries ever found in Britain. The seven furnished graves contained a truly remarkable selection of grave goods, including the remains of a wooden box containing shears, needles and a glass slickstone for smoothing fabric, with other graves containing items like amber beads, pins, silver rings, swords, axes, spears, spurs/buckles, and rare evidence for rugs and textiles. While few bones remained in the sandy soil, the burial items at Cumwhitton tell us of a society rich both in material culture but also in the cross-cultural contacts and borrowings that made Viking-Age Cumbria such a remarkable place.

From Cumwhitton, we move across Cumbria to Workington and the discovery of a huge early medieval cemetery under the burnt-out remains of St. Michael’s church. Excavated by Carlisle Archaeology, Adam and his colleagues completed the post-excavation work and wrote up the report on the amazing early medieval carved stones, inclusive of fragments of a newly-discovered ‘hogback’ stone, and multiple cemeteries, which include a mid-to-late 9th century grave with strong parallels to the Viking burials at Cumwhitton, underneath St. Michael’s.

With a focus on the northern Britons, we end with a fascinating discussion on the new multicultural world that was carved out in Cumbria and its surrounding regions in the Viking Age.

Adam Parsons is a brilliant archaeological illustrator, writer and editor with Oxford Archaeology who has worked in archaeology for over 20 years. What's more, he has devoted his spare time to being brilliant at early medieval public outreach, making exact reproductions of historical artefacts for museums, universities, and individuals and being part of Cumbraland, a living history group dedicated to portraying the 9th-11th century Brittonic Kingdom of Strathclyde. Adam is no stranger to online outreach, having large followings across his Blueaxe Reproductions social media channels on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, and more!

Prof. Fiona Edmonds

Gaelic Influence in the Northumbrian Kingdom: The Golden Age and the Viking Age

Edmonds, F. 15/12/2019 Woodbridge : Boydell & Brewer. 322 p. ISBN: 9781783273362. Electronic ISBN: 9781787445864.

The expansion of the Kingdom of Strathclyde

Edmonds, F. 1/02/2015 In: Early Medieval Europe. 23, 1, p. 43-88. 46 p.

Prof. Stephen Driscoll

Driscoll, S.T. (2014) The Govan Stones. History Scotland, 14(1), pp. 36-37.

Dalglish, C., Driscoll, S.T. , Maver, I., Shead, N.F. and Shearer, I. (2009) Historic Govan: Archaeology and Development. Series: The Scottish burgh survey. Historic Scotland: Edinburgh, UK. ISBN 9781902771625

Driscoll, S.T. (1998) Church archaeology in Glasgow and the kingdom of Strathclyde. Innes Review, 49(2), pp. 95-114.

Cynthia Thickpenny

Thickpenny, Cynthia Rose (2019) Making key pattern in Insular art: AD 600-1100. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow. https://theses.gla.ac.uk/41009/

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Scotland's First Railway: The 1722 Waggonway with Ed Bethune. A Dig It! Special

Sun, 27 Aug 2023 23:01:26 GMT

From an industrial revolution led my medieval monks to the Industrial Revolution of coal, salt and railways - via Bonnie Prince Charlie and the 1745 Battle of Prestonpans that was fought on the site! - this Dig It! Special podcast hops on board the 1722 Waggonway Project with Chairman, Ed Bethune.

In a compelling chat about a Scottish site of international importance, Ed talks to us about 'The 1722 Waggonway Project, [which] is a community heritage project run by the 1722 Waggonway Heritage Group - created to interpret, preserve and enhance the route and associated industries & environments of Scotland's first railway, the Tranent - Cockenzie Waggonway' (https://www.1722waggonway.co.uk/).

What's more, if you are listening to this before the 7-10th of September, 2023, you can take part in the project! Details below and on the 1722 Waggonway website and social media:

* 7th - 10th Sept excavation of salt pans and waggonway at Cockenzie Harbour.

* Supported by CFA Archaeology

* Drop-in activities available 8th-10th - spoil sieving, finds cleaning.

* Museum open 10am-4pm every day

* Geophysics survey drop-in 9th & 10th with Wessex Archaeology (this is on the fields to the south, through which the waggonway passes)

A note from the brilliant 1722 Waggonway Heritage Group:

The Tranent - Cockenzie Waggonway was built by the York Buildings Company in 1722. Construction started in May of that year, with local timber-wright William Dickson employed to make wooden rails, wagons and wheels [...]. The Cadell family bought the line in 1779 and upgraded it to an iron railway in 1815, before employing Robert Stevenson to make further modifications at Cockenzie Harbour in 1833. The history of the Waggonway and the coal & salt industries it served can be learned in full by visiting the Waggonway Museum.

A note from our wonderful Dig It! partners:

Dig It! is coordinated by the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland and primarily funded by Historic Environment Scotland.

Dig It! website: https://www.digitscotland.com/

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Viking Dublin Dogs

Sun, 13 Aug 2023 23:01:00 GMT

If you are fascinated by the Viking Age and love dogs, wolves or horses, then this is the archaeology and history podcast for you! In this episode, Dr. Tom Horne chats with Drs. Ruth Carden, Mary Valante and Rena Maguire of the Viking Dublin Dogs research team about their fascinating work on understanding the characteristics of dogs, wolves and horses, and what made them so important to the peoples of early medieval Europe. What's more, you can help them raise money for more vital radiocarbon dating of bones that will help give us enormous insight into these hugely important animals, their trade and breeding, and the vast range of vital human-animal interactions that were central to the daily lives of people in early medieval Ireland, Britain and Scandinavia. Find our about the Crowdfunder Campaign on the Viking Dublin Dogs website! https://www.vikingdublindogs.ie/category/all-products

Producer, Editor and Co-host: Luke Barry

Find out more about the project from the Viking Dublin Dogs social media channels https://www.twitter.com/VikingDublinDog | https://www.facebook.com/VikingDublinDogs

And discover even more from their brilliant website (https://www.vikingdublindogs.ie/), from which we learn the following:

This pioneering project will run from 2022 to 2028, studying bones from across several sites in Ireland and Britain. The Researcher Pack will investigate the origins, diet, sizes and gender of dogs and wolves, their roles, and the roles of horses in human societies in Viking-Age and Medieval times.

Not much is known about dogs from Viking-Age and Medieval periods, apart from their body sizes: small, medium and large types. There were no dog breeds as we know them today.

Perhaps some were 'pet' wolves or dogs interbred with wolves?
Were some dogs associated with status of their owner?
Were there special working or functional relationships between horses and dogs?
Did different dog types have different roles in Medieval societies?
Did Vikings bring their own dogs with them from their far-reaching travels?

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Adam Parsons - My Life in Archaeology

Sun, 30 Jul 2023 23:01:06 GMT

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Archaeology & Creativity - A chat with Tom Horne & Luke Barry

Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:10 GMT

A celebration of creativity and storytelling in archaeology outreach: join Luke and Tom as they talk about creating archaeological media that communicates a love and enthusiasm for archaeology, history and heritage, and how this helps interest as many people and communities as possible in a diverse local and global audience in our shared past.

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Meet our Archaeologists with Jennifer McCarthy

Mon, 03 Jul 2023 06:00:29 GMT

We chat with Rubicon Heritage's Jennifer McCarthy about her life in archaeology and her advice to archaeologists starting their careers in the fascinating world of commercial archaeology. Rubicon Heritage is part of the Red River Archaeology Group.

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The Viking-Age Galloway Hoard - with Dr. Adrián Maldonado

Sun, 18 Jun 2023 23:16:18 GMT

The Galloway Hoard is one of the most spectacular Viking-Age hoards ever discovered, its multiple packages and layers containing not only a huge volume of remarkable silver and gold jewellery and a stunning lidded silver vessel, but also an astonishingly rare collection of the organic materials - in this case, silk, leather, wool, animal gut, wood, and some very special dirt - that almost never survive from the early medieval world.

In this episode, join National Museum of Scotland Galloway Hoard Researcher Dr. Adrián Maldonado as he interweaves the archaeology and history of a magnificent treasure trove deposited in c. AD 900 by unknown hands in a turbulent and vivid area of south-west Scotland.

The Galloway region in which the hoard was deposited was a blurry mix of cultures and languages, ranging from Scandinavian and Anglo-Saxon to Irish, Scottish and British. Reflecting this multicultural environment, the hoard's contents, which seem to come from as far apart as Central Asia and Ireland, raise more fascinating questions than they answer about who was living, fighting and dying in this most dramatic and mutable part of the Viking world. As we learn, the project to unwrap the Galloway Hoard is only just beginning, with multiple agencies and experts called to Scotland to delve deeper and deeper into both the hoard and its secrets!

Who, then, buried this most eclectic and remarkable of hoards? It was once presumed that it was a band of Vikings, but the answer, as Adrián tells presenter Dr. Tom Horne and Producer Luke Barry, may very well surprise you...

#viking #vikings #archaeology #history #britain #ireland #scandinavia #vikingage

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M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Project

Sun, 28 May 2023 23:01:44 GMT

Rubicon Heritage's Trish Long, Transport Infrastructure Ireland's Ken Hanley and Cork County Council's Ed Lyne chat about the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Project that's revealing so much about millennia of local archaeology and heritage!

The M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Project is being progressed by Cork County Council on behalf of Transport Infrastructure Ireland.

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The 'First World War' and a Lost Tavern in George Washington's America - with Dr. Terence Christian

Mon, 22 May 2023 08:19:37 GMT

The story of a hidden Seven Years' War ('French and Indian War') time-capsule building in Pennsylvania and what it tells us about this vicious 18th-century North American conflict and the exact whereabouts of a young George Washington and his commander, General John Forbes. Join Dr. Terence Christian as he describes the war, George Washington's key role and the discovery of a lost building that Washington may have frequented during the Forbes Campaign.

01:54 - The Seven Years War: was it effectively the first world war? What happened in North America?

03:20 - French and British conflict over the strategic Ohio River Valley

05:05 - How a young British colonial militia officer, THE George Washington, started the conflict

07:45 - George Washington the battles of Jumonville Glen and Fort Necessity

08:14 - Jumonville & Fort Necessity - How Washington 'didn't really mean to start a world war'

10:19 - Washington and the Braddock Campaign and 'the start of a world war'

11:20 - Dr. Terence Christian's commercial archaeology project of a 1750s mystery building survival

12:45 - Washington the Surveyor and Braddock's Road to the French frontier

14:43 - 'A confluence of stupidity' Britain and the disastrous Battle of Fort Duquesne

17:03 - Return to Fort Duquesne - The Forbes Expedition, 1758

17:30 - Terence's Site: a building connected to Braddock's Road and Forbes of the Forbes Campaign

18:30 - 'When [the building owners] pulled the walls down, they realized they had something far older'

19:08 - The Project: a mysterious 3-sided log-built structure buried within later walls

19:22 - Was this General Forbes' lost guns and gunpowder store from the lost Fort Bedford?

19:58 - The commercial archaeology project begins - desk-based map regressions and site visits

37:23 - Found! The last remnant of the Rising Sun tavern, central to Forbes' officers like Washington

38:50 - Huge importance of this last structure relating to Forbes, Fort Bedford & the 'First World War'

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Mapping the Vikings with Tenaya Jorgensen

Tue, 09 May 2023 11:25:35 GMT

By Mapping the Vikings, archaeology PhD student Tenaya Jorgensen has developed a fascinating new narrative about what was happening in the 9th-century North Sea and Atlantic Viking world: two distinct Viking groups - one centered on the Irish Sea and Scottish region(s), and the other in England, Frankia and the Channel Area - were raiding, trading and settling in the early Viking Age, with the former dominated by groups from western Norway and the latter from southern Scandinavia.

Tenaya asks us to move away from Anglo-centric ideas of the 'Great Army', reimagining it as a 'Channel Army' influential not only in England, but also in its apparent area of origin in that coastal area between the Danish territories in southern Scandinavia and western France. While there are (later) political connections between Dublin and York, this is more a 10th-century development.

Ultimately, it is - as Tenaya states - 'all politics', with the biggest developments relating to the massive 'ripples of power' set off by a Frankish (Carolingian) state with designs on Danish possessions, that then included large parts of southern Norway and south-west Sweden.

Click the link to see Tenaya's Open Access interactive map: https://www.tenayajorgensen.com/vikingagemap

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Early Medieval Bed Burials with Dr. Emma Brownlee

Sun, 23 Apr 2023 23:01:10 GMT

Burial in Your Bed, Early Medieval Style: Join Cambridge graves and cemetery expert Dr. Emma Brownlee as she talks about the archaeology and history of the fascinating phenomenon of early medieval bed burials from their Coptic Egyptian or Byzantine origins to the stunning 'Harpole Treasure' grave in 7th-century Anglo-Saxon England.

01:43 - What is a bed burial? The where and when in early medieval Europe

03:19 - Why bury your loved ones on a bed? Status and Emotion - providing comfort for eternal rest

05:10 - Scandinavian bed burials were VERY comfortable, even having mattresses!

06:15 - Bed burials: a huge investment of time and resources - often under monumental mounds

07:40 - Beds are high-status - who is being buried in them? The boy buried in a cot in Cologne

10:20 - Types of beds, from simple 'crate' beds to 'baluster' beds, and the differences in England

13:00 - Were the beds heirlooms, or made bespoke for the burial?

15:00 - Not Dead, Only Sleeping: bed burials providing comfort until the Resurrection

16:50 - Origins: where and when do bed burials originate? Coptic Egypt? Eastern Roman Empire?

18:55 - The grave goods in bed burials: the Cologne boy with weapons, helmet, and food offerings

20:15 - Christian grave goods (burial artefacts) - beautiful high-status crosses in (English) bed burials

22:14 - Why are Christians buried with grave goods?

22:54 - England is different: *all* 7th century, *all* women, and had a distinct style of beds

25:48 - English beds: how they are special - it's all about the eyelets

28:00 - Beautiful grave goods: bed burials have 'much richer' artefacts than other burial types

28:57 - Less is More: the wonderful Trumpington bed burial, including a cloisonné cross

32:55 - Isotopic analysis - where were the 'English' bed burial women coming from - NOT England!

35:10 - Amazing mobility of bed burial women: Christian rite imported from Continent by women

34:45 - The Christianization of Anglo-Saxon England: women, conversion, and import of bed burials

38:10 - The Famous Harpole Treasure (Bed?) Burial: *that* necklace, the silver cross, and a bed (?)

42:30 - Emma's Favourite Finds: the Trumpington bed burial

Interviewer: Dr. Tom Horne

Producer and Editor: Luke Barry

#archaeology #history #podcast #medieval #earlymedieval #graves #cemetery

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A Slave-Built US Civil War POW camp (Part 2) - with Dr. Ryan K. McNutt

Wed, 12 Apr 2023 09:39:28 GMT

Part 2: Join archaeologist Dr. Ryan K. McNutt as he leads us through stories of human misery from both enslaved camp builder and Prisoner of War perspectives, informed by his directorship of the archaeology and history project at Camp Lawton, a slave-built open-air US Civil War POW Camp established in the horrific winter of 1864 by the Confederacy to hold Union Prisoners moved from hellish prisons like Andersonville.

Meant to be Over By Christmas, the US Civil War lasted for four horrific years, leading to nightmarish conditions for POWs incarcerated within vast and poorly-planned prisoner of war camps.

In Part 2 of this podcast, Ryan talks about:

- Malnourishment, disease and death

- (TW) PTSD

- The wartime chronology of the site - Union invasion of the South

- Today's outreach program(me) and African-American finds

01:58 - local wildlife: alligators, mosquitos, tarantula-sized spiders

03:48 - digging the archaeological site of Camp Lawton surrounded by alligators

04:22 - POWs eating rodents like gophers and turtles to stave off starvation

05:07 - snakes: desperate POWs capturing, skinning and eating a 6-foot snake

06:04 - the horrors of malnutrition, disease, gangrene, blood poisoning, scurvy, smallpox, exposure

09:55 - money: 'Your survivability is tied on how lucky you are to have money'

10:28 - PTSD as a killer: the horrors of war and Camp Lawton POWs digging their own graves

12:45 - POW mental health issues: letters home talk about 'other' prisoners' torment

14:10 - boredom: keeping yourself busy with escape attempts, crafting (chess pieces)

16:02 - wartime chronology: Sherman's March to the Sea through Georgia and evacuating Lawton

18:44 - Lawton evacuees' deadly winter journeys to new POW camps; some back to Andersonville

20:10 - winter clothing in short supply: taking clothes off dead POWs

23:39 - past and future archaeological finds at Camp Lawton: 'time capsule' site

28:30 - investigating the African-American presence at and around Camp Lawton

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https://cbss.georgiasouthern.edu/camp-lawton/from-the-director/

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A Slave-Built US Civil War POW camp (Part 1) - with Dr. Ryan K. McNutt

Sun, 26 Mar 2023 23:01:28 GMT

Meant to be 'Over By Christmas', the US Civil War lasted four horrific years, leading to nightmarish conditions for POWs incarcerated within vast and poorly-planned camps. Join Dr. Ryan K. McNutt as he leads us through the stories of human misery from both enslaved and POW perspectives, informed by his directorship of the archaeology and history project at Camp Lawton in Georgia, USA.

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Meet our Archaeologists with Louis Stafford

Thu, 07 Apr 2022 08:37:17 GMT

In our 'Meet our Archaeologists' series, Jonathan Millar and Tenaya Jorgensen sit down with Louis Stafford of Red River Archaeology to discuss why he decided to be an archaeologist, his weirdest find, and his advice to young archaeologists just starting in the field.

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Announcement! M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Project

Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:28:08 GMT

We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with Cork County Council and TVAS to ensure that the archaeological impacts of the construction of the M28 motorway from Cork to Ringaskiddy are mitigated. Joining us today are Ken Hanley, from Transport Infrastructure Ireland, and Ed Lyne, from Cork County Council, to tell us more about the project and what kind of archaeology we expect to find!

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More Viking Market Kingdoms with Dr Tom Horne

Wed, 23 Feb 2022 10:00:19 GMT

Everybody loves the Vikings, but what do we know about the Viking Age economies of Britain and Ireland? Dr Tom Horne discusses his new book, "A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain: Trade Networks and the Importation of a Southern Scandinavian Silver Bullion Economy," which combines network-kingdoms and nodal market-networks theories to link the economies of the Vikings in Dublin and York.

We also talk to Tom about his favourite excavations, his funiest moment in the trenches, and where he'd most like to dig at next.

This is part 2 of 2, so make sure to go back to the previous episode to hear the rest of our conversation with Tom!

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Viking Market Kingdoms with Dr Tom Horne

Wed, 09 Feb 2022 10:00:00 GMT

This is part 1 of 2, so make sure to check back in to hear the rest of our conversation with Tom!

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Meet our Archaeologists with Dr Enda O'Flaherty

Wed, 26 Jan 2022 09:55:21 GMT

In the first of our Meet our Archaeologist series, we sit down with Dr Enda O'Flaherty. Enda works as an archaeologist for Rubicon Heritage, where he fulfills many roles within operations, survey, and post-excavation, and he recently completed his PhD at NUI Galway. Enda shares how he got into archaeology, why he decided to do his PhD, and explains exactly what a turlough is.

Disused School Houses – Home Page | Disused School Houses of Ireland (endaoflaherty.com)

Buy his book here: Deserted Schoolhouses of Ireland - Enda O'Flaherty - 9781848893511 (kennys.ie)

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The Twyford Roman wooden figure with INFRA JV archaeologists

Mon, 17 Jan 2022 15:44:41 GMT

On Thursday 13 January, BBC's "Digging for Britain" featured a rare Early Roman wooden figure discovered at Twyford. The excavation was undertaken by INFRA, a joint venture between Network Archaeology and our own Rubicon Heritage. We pulled Ciaran Feeney from Network and Louis Stafford from Rubicon out of the field to talk to them about the moment of discovery and ask them what they think the wooden figure was used for.

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The Caithness Broch Project with Kenneth McElroy and Iain Maclean

Wed, 12 Jan 2022 10:00:49 GMT

What is a broch? Considered the most enigmatic structures of Scottish prehistory, brochs are massive circular stone towers with a long history of folklore, amateur enquiry, and academic investigation and excavation. Built between 400 BC and 100 AD, these unusually tall structures were design withed a degree of sophistication and ingenuity unparalleled in the British Isles at the time. Despite everything we know, there is still so much left to learn about these impressive structures! Iain Maclean and Kenneth McElroy sit down with us to talk about the Caithness Broch Project, a grass-roots charity working to promote, preserve, and conserve the archaeology and heritage of Caithness. They answer our most burning questions, including: what were brochs used for? How long were they in use? And - most important of all - did they have a roof?

Learn more and donate at their website: Caithness Broch Project - Archaeology in Caithness, Scotland (thebrochproject.co.uk)

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Protecting our Coastal Heritage with Sandra Henry from the CHERISH Project

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:00:46 GMT

Sandra Henry, the lead research archaeologist for the CHERISH project, talks to us about her work surveying coastal heritage in Ireland and Wales.

To learn more about the project, you can visit their website Home - CHERISH (cherishproject.eu), or follow them on social media CHERISH Project (@CHERISHproj) / Twitter or @cherish_project (Instagram).

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Secrets of the Ice with Julian Robert Post-Melbye

Wed, 15 Dec 2021 10:00:00 GMT

Julian Robert Post-Melbye, a member of the glacial archaeology team for the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway, speaks to us about life as a glacial archaeologist, some of the incredible finds their team has uncovered, and how they are racing against time to recover as many artefacts as possible before the glaciers of Norway disappear forever.

To learn more, you can visit their website Secrets Of The Ice and follow them on social media: Secrets Of The Ice (@brearkeologi) / Twitter, @secretsoftheice (Instagram).

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The Battle of Vinegar Hill with Damian Shiels and Sam Wilson

Wed, 01 Dec 2021 10:00:32 GMT

The Battle of Vinegar Hill was fought on 21 June 1798 between Irish Rebel forces and the British Army. The loss of the Irish forces marked a turning point in the Irish Rebellion of '98, and the site of the battle in and near Enniscorthy, Co Wexford has become a site of national importance.

Jonathan Millar joined Damian Shiels (@irishacw) of Abarta Hertiage (Abarta Heritage – Explore Ireland's Heritage with the Experts) and Sam Wilson (SAM WILSON BATTLEFIELD ARCHAEOLOGY - Home (weebly.com) at Vinegar Hill to discuss the site and battlefield archaeology.

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The heritage of a city with Jens Thoms Ivarsson

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:02:16 GMT

Jens Thoms Iversson, the creative director of the Rain Gothenburg project in Sweden, talks to us about weather and heritage, developing in historical cities, and how to design creative infrastructure.

You can learn more about the project here: Rain Gothenburg - Göteborg 2021 (goteborg2021.com)

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Matthew Harffy on Anglo-Saxon Northumbria

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:01:58 GMT

Our former colleague Craig Huddart sat down with Matthew Harffy, the award-winning author of the Bernica Chronicles. The series follows warrior Beobrand on his action-packed adventures in 7th century Northumbria. Craig and Matthew discuss the history of northern England, how Matthew incorporates historical and archaeology research into his fiction, and what it means to bring history to life.

His new book, For Lord and Land, is out now. Matthew Harffy - Author

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Luas Cross City with Emer Dennehy and Teresa Bolger

Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:00:37 GMT

For the premier of the Shindig, we talked to Emer Dennehy, at Transport Infrastructure Ireland, and Teresa Bolger, who formerly of Rubicon Heritage, about excavating Dublin city centre for the Luas Cross City project.

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