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Recording Castle Life: A Case Study in Studio Photography

  • Post published:November 17, 2010
  • Post category:Archaeological Graphics/Post Excavation/Rubicon Heritage/What We Do
  • Post comments:2 Comments

In 2005, we began a four-season investigation of the tower house at Castledonovan, Drimoleague, Co. Cork. The work was carried out for the Department of the Environment, Heritage and Local…

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Ireland’s Forgotten Great War Archaeology

  • Post published:November 11, 2010
  • Post category:20th Century/Conflict Archaeology/Rubicon Heritage/World War One
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In the second of our Remembrance Day posts, we explore the archaeological reminders of World War One that can still be seen around the Irish landscape today. The sites associated…

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Grandad, What did you do in The Great War?

  • Post published:November 10, 2010
  • Post category:Conflict Archaeology/Family History/Rubicon Heritage/World War One
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Tomorrow is November 11th, Remembrance Day. It is now 92 years since the guns fell silent on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, 1918, bringing…

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The Celtic Origins of Halloween

  • Post published:October 28, 2010
  • Post category:Festival Origins/Iron Age Ireland/Mythology/Press Release/Rubicon Heritage
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It is quite remarkable just how much influence the past has on our modern lives. When you scratch the surface of modern society the past often comes bursting through, a…

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Awl About Bead Covers: Bronze Age Gold from Co. Offaly

  • Post published:October 19, 2010
  • Post category:Bronze Age Ireland/National Roads Authority/Offaly County Council/Rubicon Heritage/Specialist Analysis
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The majority of Irish people have relatives in England, most of whom left Ireland at some point in the twentieth century in an effort to find work. Most of us…

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Grand Designs: Historic Building Record Surveys

  • Post published:October 12, 2010
  • Post category:Buildings/Post Medieval Archaeology/Rubicon Heritage/Survey/What We Do
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Before beginning, it should be made clear that Rubicon has not conducted market research to identify our target demographic, or polled 100 people in the street to gauge public opinion.…

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Are you Smarter than a Ten Year Old?

  • Post published:October 7, 2010
  • Post category:Education/Outreach/Rubicon Heritage/What We Do
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Most of us are familiar with that all too often used cliché 'thinking outside the box'. Well, in Rubicon's pursuit of knowledge about the past let it not be said…

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Zooarchaeology Focus: With Age Comes Wisdom

  • Post published:October 4, 2010
  • Post category:Early Medieval Ireland/Faunal Remains/Medieval Ireland/Rubicon Heritage/What We Do
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One of the main purposes of this blog is to let people know what we at Rubicon do, and to explain the type of techniques we employ when looking at…

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Limerick’s 19th Century Pawn Stars!

  • Post published:September 30, 2010
  • Post category:Excavations/Limerick/Post Medieval Archaeology/Rubicon Heritage/Urban Archaeology
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You never quite know what to expect when you venture into an archaeological project. In 2002, we were commissioned to undertake an archaeological assessment at Barrington´s Hostel in the centre…

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Painting the Past: A Graphic Reconstruction

  • Post published:September 29, 2010
  • Post category:Archaeological Graphics/Bronze Age Ireland/National Roads Authority/Rubicon Heritage/Waterford County Council
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It is mid-afternoon yet it is pitch dark. The humid air is thick with smoke, sweat and steam. You are surrounded by naked people, crammed inside a leather tent - people are singing and…

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What We Do…Renewable Energy

  • Post published:September 27, 2010
  • Post category:Environmental Impact Assessment/Marine Archaeology/Markets/Renewable Energy/Rubicon Heritage/Upland Archaeology/What We Do
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Being part of a commercial archaeology company means much more than just digging (although thats important too!). Over the coming weeks and months we will be running a series of…

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If Carlsberg Did Archaeological Photographs…

  • Post published:September 23, 2010
  • Post category:Bronze Age Ireland/Carlow/Iron Age Ireland/National Roads Authority/Rubicon Heritage
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The photo in our banner was taken by Brian MacDomhnaill, a keen photographer and our Survey Manager. The image was shortlisted for an award in the international journal Antiquity this…

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Meeting Our Medieval Ancestors from Ardreigh, Co. Kildare

  • Post published:September 22, 2010
  • Post category:Cemetery/Medieval Ireland/Post Excavation/Rubicon Heritage/Specialist Analysis
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Rubicon's osteoarchaeology team have recently completed analysis of a large assemblage of human remains from Ardreigh, Co. Kildare. They were excavated by Kildare County Council archaeologists at the site of…

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Casting the Bronze Age: A Prehistoric Spearhead Comes to Life

  • Post published:September 20, 2010
  • Post category:Archaeology Ireland/Bronze Age Ireland/Excavations/National Roads Authority/Rubicon Heritage
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In February 2008, Rubicon Heritage Services made a very unusual discovery. While excavating a site at Mullamast, Co. Kildare in advance of construction on the N9/N10 road scheme, a strange…

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Bronze Age Jewellery Found in Co. Kildare

  • Post published:September 18, 2010
  • Post category:Bronze Age Ireland/Cremations/National Roads Authority/Press Release/Rubicon Heritage
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Archaeologists at Rubicon recently made a unique and intriguing discovery while working on behalf of the National Roads Authority and Kildare County Council on the route of the Athy Link…

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Viking Longphort Found in Co. Louth

  • Post published:September 17, 2010
  • Post category:Breaking News/Early Medieval Ireland/Excavations/Rubicon Heritage/Viking Ireland
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Archaeologists working in Annagassan, Co. Louth have uncovered evidence for Viking settlement at the potential site of Linnduchaill, previously known only through historical sources. The research project is being carried…

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Welcome To Headlines!

  • Post published:September 16, 2010
  • Post category:General News/Headlines/Introductions/Rubicon Heritage
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Welcome to Headlines, the blog of Rubicon Heritage Services Ltd! We are a commercial archaeology company with offices in the UK and Ireland. To see more about our company and…

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