ArchaeoFox: Exploring the World Through the Past PhD Semester One
A Selection of Photographs from my first Semester at UCD School of Archaeology – Year one, PhD – September to January, 2015
A Student shapes a piece of clay for the first time, connecting with the past through his hands.
In 2015 I was named Instagrammer of the month by #myucdfeatured This is the first image I sent in; Beginning PhD by building a Database of Woodworking tools from Bronze Age Greece and Crete
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Scoring a pot with Flint, at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
The Early Medieval Irish Roundhouse at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
A view from the inside of our Mesolithic house at UCD Centre for Experimental Archeology
The tip of the iceberg 🙂
Some pots ready for firing
Building a Clay Oven – UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
Waiting for buses in Dublin City; A large part of being a student
My Supervisor,Dr. Alan Peatfeald
A the undergrads leave for there exams in the RDS, leaving campus somewhat of a wasteland 😦
Letting the Past run through your fingers, students learn to work clay at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
Studying shipwrecks in Bronze Age Aegean
Working away at our new Material Cultures Lab at UCD School of Archaeology
Dr. Jerolyne E. Morrison gives here talk on Minoan Cooking at UCD School of Archaeology -Part of Dr.Barry Molloy’s ‘Breaking the Mould’ Seminar Series with UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
The fire at UCD Centre for Archaeology Burns – Yeah, my university is pretty cool!
Nature walk in Ferrycarrig National Heritage Park
A view from the Viking house at Ferrycarrig HeritageCentre
A walk through the past – My grandfather takes my brother and I for a walk through dublin; where he was born, where he went to school worked and met his wife.
Autumn in Dublin City
An odd statue in Mount St Jerome Cemetery, Dublin; I only noticed the medalion when editing the image later
My Supervisor, Dr. Alan Peatfield talks to his Combat Archaeology Students, before heading out into the Research Centre for a Sword cutting demonstration.
Grinding an edge, to make a stone axe
‘Homer once used the phrase, Bitter Bronze, and you don’t really know what Homer is talking about until you used a bronze weapon’ – A student is begins to understand just that at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
BooM! Headshot! A day of sword test-cut experiments at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
Two student engage with Sword and Shield, understand weapons through use for Dr. Alan Peatfield’s Combat Archaeology Module at UCD
The entrance to UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
Even the little chaps are busy at work at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
Even the little chaps are busy at work at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
Hazel at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology; what we will build our Viking hose from in 2016
The Wanderer – a red ant scouts across our clay shaping planks at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
The Lake at UCD
A girl reads by the lake at UCD
My girlfriend visits, went for coffee in Dublin City
On the way home, coming up to Christmas; I stopped into Temple Bar
Luner Eclipse – 2015
Joyce, still reading his book, in Temple Bar Dublin
In a cafe in Powers Court
Giving my mid term presentation during our Phd seminar day.
Starbucks, Henry Street
The Early Medieval Irish Roundhouse at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology, built by Brendan O’Neill
Bronze Casting at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
Cooking Minoan Rabbit Stew atUCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
Dr. Barry Molloy photographs Jason O’Brien and Dr. Jerolyn E. Morrison, after a demonstration of Minoan cooking at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology ; Breaking the Mould Seminar Series
A Portrait of My colleague, IRC and fellow PhD Scholar, Brendan O’Niel
Our Professors here understand more than any, that Experimental Archaeology means getting your feet dirty!
Prof. Aidan O’Sullivan at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
The Early Medieval Irish Roundhouse at UCD, Centre for Experimental Archaeology
An old exam table still gets used in our centre, some souls die hard.
Stephen Fox, Brendan O’Niell and Dr. Eileen Reilly discuss the beginning plans of our Viking House
Dr. Eileen Reilly, consulting during our first meeting for the Viking Longhouse at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
Surveying the very place where our Type one Dublin Viking House will be built.
A leave gets caught in the wild hair of the Early Medieval Irish Roundhouse at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology
Detailed drawing of one of the Viking houses excavated in Dublin
Coffee – the full of great thinking 🙂
A Cafe in Malahide; the cake was not for me!
Gotta love the BuckS!
My Dog Jake; the best dog in the world.
Cafe in my home village, Malahide
Cafe in my Home Village Malahide
Some Jazz Music for the Archaeology Christmas party
In the National Museum of Ireland – Making a 3D Image of a 3,000 year old wooden shield
Up close, some tool marks on the Ralaghan bog figurine.
Another passion of mine – Christmas holidays means some free time.
Whats Christmas without a Gentleman in a top hat?!
Someone stroll down an alley off Grafton Street – Christmas week
A busker the week of Christmas, on my way home for the holidays
Christmas lights on Grafton Street
Trinity College Dublin Glows for Christmas ; a Good end to a Great Year
