The Shindig - An Archaeology Podcast

Rubicon Heritage's Trish Long, Transport Infrastructure Ireland's Ken Hanley and Cork County Council's Ed Lyne chat about the M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Project that's revealing so much about millennia of local archaeology and heritage! The M28 Cork to Ringaskiddy Project is being progressed by Cork County Council on behalf of Transport Infrastructure Ireland. The Shindig is a Rubicon Archaeology Pro...

The story of a hidden Seven Years' War ('French and Indian War') time-capsule building in Pennsylvania and what it tells us about this vicious 18th-century North American conflict and the exact whereabouts of a young George Washington and his commander, General John Forbes. Join Dr. Terence Christian as he describes the war, George Washington's key role and the discovery of a lost building that Wa...

By Mapping the Vikings, archaeology PhD student Tenaya Jorgensen has developed a fascinating new narrative about what was happening in the 9th-century North Sea and Atlantic Viking world: two distinct Viking groups - one centered on the Irish Sea and Scottish region(s), and the other in England, Frankia and the Channel Area - were raiding, trading and settling in the early Viking Age, with the for...

Burial in Your Bed, Early Medieval Style: Join Cambridge graves and cemetery expert Dr. Emma Brownlee as she talks about the archaeology and history of the fascinating phenomenon of early medieval bed burials from their Coptic Egyptian or Byzantine origins to the stunning 'Harpole Treasure' grave in 7th-century Anglo-Saxon England. 01:43 - What is a bed burial? The where and when in early medieval...

Part 2: Join archaeologist Dr. Ryan K. McNutt as he leads us through stories of human misery from both enslaved camp builder and Prisoner of War perspectives, informed by his directorship of the archaeology and history project at Camp Lawton, a slave-built open-air US Civil War POW Camp established in the horrific winter of 1864 by the Confederacy to hold Union Prisoners moved from hellish prisons...

Meant to be 'Over By Christmas', the US Civil War lasted four horrific years, leading to nightmarish conditions for POWs incarcerated within vast and poorly-planned camps. Join Dr. Ryan K. McNutt as he leads us through the stories of human misery from both enslaved and POW perspectives, informed by his directorship of the archaeology and history project at Camp Lawton in Georgia, USA. The Shindig...

In our 'Meet our Archaeologists' series, Jonathan Millar and Tenaya Jorgensen sit down with Louis Stafford of Red River Archaeology to discuss why he decided to be an archaeologist, his weirdest find, and his advice to young archaeologists just starting in the field. The Shindig is a Rubicon Archaeology Production. Keep up to date with everything Rubicon here: Click for More Hosted on Acast. See a...

We are pleased to announce that we have partnered with Cork County Council and TVAS to ensure that the archaeological impacts of the construction of the M28 motorway from Cork to Ringaskiddy are mitigated. Joining us today are Ken Hanley, from Transport Infrastructure Ireland, and Ed Lyne, from Cork County Council, to tell us more about the project and what kind of archaeology we expect to find! T...

Everybody loves the Vikings, but what do we know about the Viking Age economies of Britain and Ireland? Dr Tom Horne discusses his new book, "A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain: Trade Networks and the Importation of a Southern Scandinavian Silver Bullion Economy," which combines network-kingdoms and nodal market-networks theories to link the economies of the Vikings in Dublin and York....

Everybody loves the Vikings, but what do we know about the Viking Age economies of Britain and Ireland? Dr Tom Horne discusses his new book, "A Viking Market Kingdom in Ireland and Britain: Trade Networks and the Importation of a Southern Scandinavian Silver Bullion Economy," which combines network-kingdoms and nodal market-networks theories to link the economies of the Vikings in Dublin and York....

In the first of our Meet our Archaeologist series, we sit down with Dr Enda O'Flaherty. Enda works as an archaeologist for Rubicon Heritage, where he fulfills many roles within operations, survey, and post-excavation, and he recently completed his PhD at NUI Galway. Enda shares how he got into archaeology, why he decided to do his PhD, and explains exactly what a turlough is. Disused School Houses...

On Thursday 13 January, BBC's "Digging for Britain" featured a rare Early Roman wooden figure discovered at Twyford. The excavation was undertaken by INFRA, a joint venture between Network Archaeology and our own Rubicon Heritage. We pulled Ciaran Feeney from Network and Louis Stafford from Rubicon out of the field to talk to them about the moment of discovery and ask them what they think the wood...

What is a broch? Considered the most enigmatic structures of Scottish prehistory, brochs are massive circular stone towers with a long history of folklore, amateur enquiry, and academic investigation and excavation. Built between 400 BC and 100 AD, these unusually tall structures were design withed a degree of sophistication and ingenuity unparalleled in the British Isles at the time. Despite ever...

Sandra Henry, the lead research archaeologist for the CHERISH project, talks to us about her work surveying coastal heritage in Ireland and Wales. To learn more about the project, you can visit their website Home - CHERISH (cherishproject.eu) , or follow them on social media CHERISH Project (@CHERISHproj) / Twitter or @cherish_project (Instagram). The Shindig is a Rubicon Archaeology Production. K...

Julian Robert Post-Melbye, a member of the glacial archaeology team for the Museum of Cultural History in Oslo, Norway, speaks to us about life as a glacial archaeologist, some of the incredible finds their team has uncovered, and how they are racing against time to recover as many artefacts as possible before the glaciers of Norway disappear forever. To learn more, you can visit their website Sec...

The Battle of Vinegar Hill was fought on 21 June 1798 between Irish Rebel forces and the British Army. The loss of the Irish forces marked a turning point in the Irish Rebellion of '98, and the site of the battle in and near Enniscorthy, Co Wexford has become a site of national importance. Jonathan Millar joined Damian Shiels (@irishacw) of Abarta Hertiage ( Abarta Heritage – Explore Ireland's Her...

Jens Thoms Iversson, the creative director of the Rain Gothenburg project in Sweden, talks to us about weather and heritage, developing in historical cities, and how to design creative infrastructure. You can learn more about the project here: Rain Gothenburg - Göteborg 2021 (goteborg2021.com) The Shindig is a Rubicon Archaeology Production. Keep up to date with everything Rubicon here: Click for...

Our former colleague Craig Huddart sat down with Matthew Harffy, the award-winning author of the Bernica Chronicles. The series follows warrior Beobrand on his action-packed adventures in 7th century Northumbria. Craig and Matthew discuss the history of northern England, how Matthew incorporates historical and archaeology research into his fiction, and what it means to bring history to life. His n...

For the premier of the Shindig, we talked to Emer Dennehy, at Transport Infrastructure Ireland, and Teresa Bolger, who formerly of Rubicon Heritage, about excavating Dublin city centre for the Luas Cross City project. The Shindig is a Rubicon Archaeology Production. Keep up to date with everything Rubicon here: Click for More Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.