Archer Heritage Planning

Name: Archer Heritage Planning
Address: Unit 1 Tinure Business Park, Dublin, A92K2VF, IE
Telephone: +35318020403

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Archer Heritage Planning Ltd are experienced archaeologists guiding you through the planning process by providing a wide range of archaeological services nationally.

15/05/2025

We are looking for a team of assistants for a 10 week excavation starting mid-June in Roscommon Town, €650 per week plus subsistence. Applications to [email protected]

29/01/2025

Exciting Opportunity for Archaeologists – Join us uncovering history in Dublin!
Archer Heritage Planning is looking for experienced archaeologists to excavate a fascinating abbey site right in the heart of Dublin city.
What’s in it for you?

• Start Date: February 24th 2025
• Duration: Approximately 10 weeks of hands-on excavation on historic site
• Pay: €650 per week + €150 weekly subsistence
• Schedule: Work from 8:30–5:00 (and finish early at 4:00 on Fridays!)

What we’re looking for:
• At least 1 year of commercial site experience
• A degree in archaeology
If you’re passionate about history and ready to be part of an incredible dig in one of Dublin’s most iconic locations, we’d love to hear from you.
Apply now and help bring the past to life! [email protected]

05/07/2023

Variously referred to as "Castletown Motte", "Dun Delga" or even "The Pirate Byrnes Castle", it is as Cuchullainns Castle that this large flat-topped mound is best known.
These different names hint at its continued use and importance over time, starting with its association with the warrior Cuchulainn about the time of Christ more than 2000 years ago. From this fort Cuchullainn fought the forces of Queen Maeve as she pushed northwards in her quest for the mythical Brown Bull of Cooley. The crest of Dundalk claims Cuchullainn as a son of the town when it states "Me do rug Cu Chullainn Croga" or I gave birth to brave Cu Chullainn.
In later accounts around the seventh century the site is known as "Dun Delga" or the fort of the thorns, suggesting that a structure of some form - probably a hillfort - existed before the construction of the Norman Motte by Bertram de Verdon in 1180. The motte is composed of a 20m high mound with a small bailey or enclosure to the northwest, a much larger bailey previously existed to the east of the mound but has now been removed. The surrounding area contains many souterrains or underground chambers, an example
of which can be seen halfway up the winding path to the mound summit.

Directions;
Take the Dundalk Centre exit at Junction 17 on the M1, drive towards Dundalk and take the 2nd right about 750m from the motorway. Cuchullains castle is 100m on RHS along Mount Avenue.

GPS; 54.014013,-6.428735

25/05/2023

Some beautiful Victorian seaside villas in Buncrana on the Inishowen peninsula in Donegal. The town is known as the place where John Newton (a notorious English slaver) wrote the hymn Amazing Grace after a near fatal storm in the Atlantic almost wrecked the ship he was on. It is also the place where Wolfe Tone was taken ashore from a French ship following 1798.

28/10/2022

Unusual clay pipe bowl in the shape of an African head found on a site in Newbridge which owes its origins to a cavalry barracks established in the town in the early 19th century, this form of decorative pipe was probably manufactured in the Potteries area of the UK and used by a soldier based in the barracks in Newbridge.

29/09/2022

A rare clear day in a Coillte forest on the southern side of Carlingford Lough with wonderful views northwards.

31/08/2022

A recent Heritage Daily article about King Harald whose dead tooth - a dark blue/grey color - earned him the nickname Bluetooth which is the root of the Bluetooth symbol a bind rune merging (Hagall) (ᚼ) and (Bjarkan) (ᛒ) Harald’s initials - reminded us of our own Viking discovery - Linn Duachaill in Annagassan which we uncovered this time 12 years ago. The Viking settlement of Linn Duachaill was finally located following a research excavation in Annagassan, Co. Louth. Linn Duachaill is mentioned in The Annals of Ulster as being established by the Vikings in 841AD but its precise location was unknown . Linn Duachaill was a longphort or ship enclosure, usually situated upriver some distance from the sea using the inflow of the tide to allow access to the shelter of the longphort.
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/06/satellite-data-points-to-possible-burial-site-of-bluetooth-viking-king/143997?fbclid=IwAR1S4SjZw9DybdasnyMfi-A2z0UPguBhgaPuApWJvP-A15eE_O3GDYCM4oU

19/08/2022

This single skeleton recovered from South, Co Dublin was located within the basal fill of a linear ditch or field boundary. The remains were those of a robust, ‘possible female’, aged roughly 45 years at time-of–death, measuring between 161cm (5ft 2in) and a maximum of 171.7cm (5ft 6in) in stature.

There were numerous markers, both in the skull and across the remaining skeleton which suggested she suffered from a possible brain tumour, the inflammatory autoimmune disease- Rheumatoid Arthritis and possible malnutrition at time-of-death.

Both the left and right elbows, wrists and hands showed signs of severe osteoarthritis in the form of additional bony growth and osteoporosis. In some bones it was so severe that the articular areas of the bones were shiny from rubbing against each other (eburnation). As the arthritis can be seen in both the right and left elbow, wrist and hands it is likely to be indicative of the systemic autoimmune disease Rheumatoid Arthritis.

The occipital plate of the skull showed signs of a brain tumour. The inner surface of the occipital showed impressions of abnormal blood vessels. In this instance the impressions appear to have been a result of a tumour or similar type growth which pressed against the skull. This is further evidenced by a bulge recorded on the outer surface of the skull. This bulge was caused by pressure on the inner surface pushing against the occipital plate and lifting it away from the parietal plate. The sutures continued to grow and knit together despite the bulge pulling them apart which suggests this could have been a slow growing tumour. It is unclear if this tumour alone could have been the cause of death but it is possible.

06/07/2022

What did the Romans ever do for us? Well they give us a good academic row over Drumanagh fort near Rush which was famously the subject of a Sunday Times article in 1996 controversially proposing it as the site of a Roman beach-head or invasion point, a theory which is hotly contested by Irish academics. The site is an imposing headland modified to an impressive enclosure with triple ramparts, 365m in length delimiting the headland. The site has produced a number of Roman objects such as pottery and coins dating to the first and second century AD and it is believed that a Romano-British trading colony was located here in the early centuries AD. The connection with Roman Britain is further emphasized by a number of burials reported at Lambay Island in 1927 which are believed to have been individuals buried in a Romano-British manner and buried with objects (an iron sword, mirror, bronze brooches and other ornaments), which were common to areas around Yorkshire and Lancashire in the late 1st century AD.

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