| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? 12:03 - Feb 27 with 3935 views | Keno |
I watched one yesterday, tho it isnt the same without Baldrick |  |
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| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 12:41 - Mar 3 with 570 views | Eireannach_gorm |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 12:30 - Mar 3 by leitrimblue |
That's a beauty. Can I ask what townland you in and I will have a quick look at it? |
Brownshill Dolmen just outside Carlow town .
https://carlowtourism.com/attraction/brownshill-dolmen-2/
Not sure about the ethics of Carlow Hurlers standing on it! |  | | |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 12:46 - Mar 3 with 544 views | Keno |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 12:35 - Mar 3 by leitrimblue |
I have a secret admiration for builder built dolmens and stone circles. My neighbour as a supreme stone circle with a central dolmen in his garden. I helped out with a couple of 'alignments' that should confuse the feck outta future archaeologists  |
But werent the Stonehenge stones teleported there by the same atlantean aliens that built the pyramids. sculpted the fjords and wrote the bible? | |
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| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 13:02 - Mar 3 with 526 views | Eireannach_gorm |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 12:46 - Mar 3 by Keno |
But werent the Stonehenge stones teleported there by the same atlantean aliens that built the pyramids. sculpted the fjords and wrote the bible? |
Did Mick from Sligo not already explain how he did it? | | | |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 13:06 - Mar 3 with 511 views | Keno |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 13:02 - Mar 3 by Eireannach_gorm |
Did Mick from Sligo not already explain how he did it? |
he wasnt very specific to be honest, just that he could build one easy, not to worry about planning and if I wanted a tarmac driveway leading up to it his mate Ronan could help with that but could he have the cash front as well
(can I just check you're not a builder called Mick from Sligo ... are you?) | |
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| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 13:08 - Mar 3 with 502 views | Eireannach_gorm |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 13:06 - Mar 3 by Keno |
he wasnt very specific to be honest, just that he could build one easy, not to worry about planning and if I wanted a tarmac driveway leading up to it his mate Ronan could help with that but could he have the cash front as well
(can I just check you're not a builder called Mick from Sligo ... are you?) |
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| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 13:10 - Mar 3 with 502 views | leitrimblue |
Argh, it will be fine. The local GA team standing on it probably encouraged more visitors then its had for a while.
Think that's in Kernanstown, there should be or used to be 2 more in that area. Not sure if they kept in local library (they are supposed to be) but if you can get a look at excavation reports from the construction of M9 you will see there was a enormous amount of archaeology discovered in the Busherstown/Jamestown stretch of its construction. It would suggest a really dense neolithic landscape in that area. If you go on to the Historical environmental viewer(if you haven't already) you can check out all the monuments in your area and they give you a little bit of info on them |  | | |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 13:45 - Mar 3 with 456 views | Plums |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 11:05 - Mar 3 by leitrimblue |
It's a probably a boring enough subject for a football forum but archaeologys relationship with the media, especially tv is large part of the reason you only see the same old narrative retold over and over again.
The majority of the 'archaeologists' you see on TV ( there are a couple of exceptions) are purely involved in raising there own archaeological profile (often but not always encouraged by the university or organisation they represent).
They aren't usually involved in the larger archaeological debate and they definitely aren't making TV analysing the latest research etc. They are just regurgitating the same kinda archaeology related format that the TV stations believe will be popular and receive the highest viewing figures. |
Isn't that the same for any academic endeavour v 'popular' output?
Once you cross the line into becoming a TV personality your academic peers see you as compromised so you need to choose one path or the other. Or is that the way it was, rather than how it is now? [Post edited 3 Mar 2023 15:03]
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| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 13:48 - Mar 3 with 451 views | Eireannach_gorm |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 13:10 - Mar 3 by leitrimblue |
Argh, it will be fine. The local GA team standing on it probably encouraged more visitors then its had for a while.
Think that's in Kernanstown, there should be or used to be 2 more in that area. Not sure if they kept in local library (they are supposed to be) but if you can get a look at excavation reports from the construction of M9 you will see there was a enormous amount of archaeology discovered in the Busherstown/Jamestown stretch of its construction. It would suggest a really dense neolithic landscape in that area. If you go on to the Historical environmental viewer(if you haven't already) you can check out all the monuments in your area and they give you a little bit of info on them |
Yes those motorway excavations are a great source of information.
Great audiobooks available for the less interested in Archeology.
https://www.tii.ie/technical-services/archaeology/audioguides/
As an aside, other major Civil Engineering works also necessitate archaeological digs and this one prevented me getting out my driveway!
https://www.slideshare.net/eachtra/final-castledermot-report-journal-5075437 | | | |
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| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 14:29 - Mar 3 with 437 views | leitrimblue |
John Tierney at Eachtra is really good at putting excavation results online and making them accessible to all. They put some of the bigger companies to shame.
I worked on the NRA (now aTII) Road excavations for 6-7 years during the celtic tiger. All the excavation reports are supposed to be deposited in local libraries but it is very hit and miss.
Excavations.ie as a summary of every excavation carried out in the country. ( is a legal requirement as part of archaeological licensing). But some of these are quite brief | | | |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 14:32 - Mar 3 with 432 views | DJR |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 13:45 - Mar 3 by Plums |
Isn't that the same for any academic endeavour v 'popular' output?
Once you cross the line into becoming a TV personality your academic peers see you as compromised so you need to choose one path or the other. Or is that the way it was, rather than how it is now? [Post edited 3 Mar 2023 15:03]
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On a related theme, one thing I really hate is dramatic re-enactments in history programmes. And I was never really fussed when Phil on Time Team operated the bellows to make some sort of implement. |  | | |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 14:44 - Mar 3 with 420 views | leitrimblue |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 13:45 - Mar 3 by Plums |
Isn't that the same for any academic endeavour v 'popular' output?
Once you cross the line into becoming a TV personality your academic peers see you as compromised so you need to choose one path or the other. Or is that the way it was, rather than how it is now? [Post edited 3 Mar 2023 15:03]
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No, unfortunately it still like that. For example if you were to put forward a proposal say for a documentary on a medieval graveyard you had recently excavated. No TV production company will have any interest. If you change title to vampires found in Medieval cemetery channel 5 will probably be interested (your institution will be happy)but your credibility as gone forever | | | |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 14:52 - Mar 3 with 397 views | Swansea_Blue |
This one is just up the road from the inlaws:
Pentre Ifan Cromlech, thought to be from about 3,500BC. I'm struggling to find a picture with people in for scale, but it would have been a fair old lump to move into place. |  |
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| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 15:37 - Mar 3 with 379 views | DJR |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 14:44 - Mar 3 by leitrimblue |
No, unfortunately it still like that. For example if you were to put forward a proposal say for a documentary on a medieval graveyard you had recently excavated. No TV production company will have any interest. If you change title to vampires found in Medieval cemetery channel 5 will probably be interested (your institution will be happy)but your credibility as gone forever |
Ipswich is quite a good place for cemeteries. A couple spring to mind, one for its antiquity and one because it surprised me there was one.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-54357931
https://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/22072328.ipswich-icons-hidden-cemetery-reveal
The former featured on a Channel 4 programme which I watched at the time, but I can't imagine the series would have had many viewers. Indeed, I may have only watched that programme in the series because it was about Ipswich.
https://www.channel4.com/programmes/bone-detectives-britains-buried-secrets/on-d
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| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 18:32 - Mar 3 with 341 views | Plums |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 11:05 - Mar 3 by leitrimblue |
It's a probably a boring enough subject for a football forum but archaeologys relationship with the media, especially tv is large part of the reason you only see the same old narrative retold over and over again.
The majority of the 'archaeologists' you see on TV ( there are a couple of exceptions) are purely involved in raising there own archaeological profile (often but not always encouraged by the university or organisation they represent).
They aren't usually involved in the larger archaeological debate and they definitely aren't making TV analysing the latest research etc. They are just regurgitating the same kinda archaeology related format that the TV stations believe will be popular and receive the highest viewing figures. |
I came across this today after Saul David plugged it on his Ukraine podcast. It's an interesting new approach and is seeking to address some of these issues.
If I had the time and cash, I'd probably partake.
https://www.content-club.xyz/ | |
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| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 18:36 - Mar 3 with 336 views | jontysnut |
| Hey Leitrimblue - are you in any of these new Time Teams? on 14:32 - Mar 3 by DJR |
On a related theme, one thing I really hate is dramatic re-enactments in history programmes. And I was never really fussed when Phil on Time Team operated the bellows to make some sort of implement. |
"from this fragment of stone we can recreate what the Emperor's Palace once looked like" |  | | |
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