Archaeologist hails 'extraordinary' Viking village find in Dublin

The Irish Times ^ | Thu, Mar 22, 2018 | Ronan McGreevy

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Terrace of houses from 11th century reveals treasure trove of artefacts

[SunkenCiv]

Not really related, I just like it, and hey, maybe it is related. The Vikings, they got around.

Drone flight over Drumanagh site, Loughshinny, Co. Dublin | Mark Broderick | YouTube

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[Abathar]

I would love to have been a fly on the wall of that developer when the construction crews announced their find and shut it all down.

The Irish have such a way with words when they get really upset...

[SunkenCiv]

Three Irishmen walk out of a pub.



Hey, it could happen.

[Pontiac]

The slate was found to the rear of one of the houses which was made from wattle.

Wattle : a fabrication of poles interwoven with slender branches, withes, or reeds and used especially formerly in building

I was not familiar with the word.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

AWESOME!

[Hot Tabasco]

How do those ancient sites get all covered up with feet of dirty anyway?

[Western Phil]

How do those ancient sites get all covered up with feet of dirty anyway?

Sometimes earthworms are responsible.

[Crucial]

Don’t let the Swedes know. They’ll burn all of it in a selfish, cowardly act of cultural self destruction.

[ApplegateRanch]

Satan does it, to tempt people into becoming archaeologists.

[Rebelbase]

"lots of animal horn"

[tet68]

Wattle and daub construction, where a wall made of interwoven reeds or limbs are covered with mud.

[PeterPrinciple]

How do those ancient sites get all covered up with feet of dirty anyway?

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negative erosion.

1) a older gentlemen in my toastmasters club worked for the soil conversation service in the 30’s. He documented that plowing uphill increased soil depth.

2) ever notice how new sidewalks are 3-4 inches about the lawn but older sidewalks are lower than the lawn. The organic matter builds up.

[Pontiac]

Looks like lath and plaster probably developed from wattle and daub.

[DiogenesLamp]

So the oceans rose from what they were in the past? And without man caused "global warming"?

UnPossible!

[SunkenCiv]

Heh...

[SunkenCiv]

:^)

[SunkenCiv]

Apparently there’s a whole canal full of wattle, the wattle canal, huge battle was fought there in WWII.

I’d often wondered what wattle, of wattle and daub, was. Sometimes, rather than using mud, the “plaster” was made of dung, probably because so much was around all the time. They figured out how to treat it so there was no smell. That’s their story anyway.