Dun Ailinne features in Summer Archaeology Ireland

The Summer 2020 issue of Archaeology Ireland (€6.95 only) carries an article by Zenobie S Garrett, who participated in an excavation in 2019 on the Dun Ailinne site with some of her students, writes Garreth Byrne.

Her article, The Venerable Bead, discusses the significance of an interesting artefact they discovered. There are a few photos of the work, the scenery around and the participants.

The same issue of this popular and well laid out quarterly magazine also carries photos of a Celtic cross in Castledermot and the Killeen Cormac cemetery in Colbinstown on the Kildare-West Wicklow border.

EDITOR NOTE: Ms Garrett is an archaeologist at NYU Department of Anthropology who uses spatial analyses to address questions regarding landscape and its role in social investment in the ancient world. Currently she is the Geospatial Specialist and a field school supervisor at Dun Ailinne, where she has worked with students from the Blackfriary Archaeology Field School, based in Trim, Co Meath. Excavations at Dun Ailinne directed by Dr Susan Johnston of George Washington University have taken place in 2016, 2018 and 2019.

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