UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture
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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture: “Making, Understanding, Storytelling”
https://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/ceamc/
Posts by Aidan O’Sullivan & Anita Radini, at UCD School of Archaeology
https://www.ucd.ie/archaeology/ceamc/
Posts by Aidan O’Sullivan & Anita Radini, at UCD School of Archaeology
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture celebrated in one of UCD’s new banners!
This image is inspired by a passage in the Old Irish ‘Immram Curaig Mael Dúin’, where the hero enters a house to see gold and silver brooches on the walls
This brooch made by Brendan O’Neill
This image is inspired by a passage in the Old Irish ‘Immram Curaig Mael Dúin’, where the hero enters a house to see gold and silver brooches on the walls
This brooch made by Brendan O’Neill
December 3, 2025 at 6:02 PM
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture celebrated in one of UCD’s new banners!
This image is inspired by a passage in the Old Irish ‘Immram Curaig Mael Dúin’, where the hero enters a house to see gold and silver brooches on the walls
This brooch made by Brendan O’Neill
This image is inspired by a passage in the Old Irish ‘Immram Curaig Mael Dúin’, where the hero enters a house to see gold and silver brooches on the walls
This brooch made by Brendan O’Neill
A traditional Irish ghost turnip for Halloween #OicheShamhna #Samhain #Halloween #thinveilbetweentheworlds #NaSídhe
October 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
A traditional Irish ghost turnip for Halloween #OicheShamhna #Samhain #Halloween #thinveilbetweentheworlds #NaSídhe
Dr Anita Radini is growing dye-plants at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, such as madder, woad and weld.
And they’ll be used by our own students in dyeing textiles
It’s time to apply for our online Grad Cert or our on-campus MSc/GradDip Experimental Archaeology
And they’ll be used by our own students in dyeing textiles
It’s time to apply for our online Grad Cert or our on-campus MSc/GradDip Experimental Archaeology
October 17, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Dr Anita Radini is growing dye-plants at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, such as madder, woad and weld.
And they’ll be used by our own students in dyeing textiles
It’s time to apply for our online Grad Cert or our on-campus MSc/GradDip Experimental Archaeology
And they’ll be used by our own students in dyeing textiles
It’s time to apply for our online Grad Cert or our on-campus MSc/GradDip Experimental Archaeology
The bed in our early medieval house is ready for its blankets …
October 17, 2025 at 4:24 PM
The bed in our early medieval house is ready for its blankets …
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, Dublin - where dreams come through 🙂
October 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, Dublin - where dreams come through 🙂
UCD Archaeology students doing their experimental archaeology practicals today, as they do every Friday at CEAMC! This week, stone carving and flint knapping with Dr Anita Radini and Dr Ryan Lash, assisted ably by Lucy Robinson and Deborah Buchanan.
October 17, 2025 at 4:18 PM
UCD Archaeology students doing their experimental archaeology practicals today, as they do every Friday at CEAMC! This week, stone carving and flint knapping with Dr Anita Radini and Dr Ryan Lash, assisted ably by Lucy Robinson and Deborah Buchanan.
Delighted to welcome Assoc. Prof Roy Flechner’s 3rd year class on “History from below: Rural life in the middle ages (HIS32800)”, to our Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, where we explored daily life and work in an early medieval Irish rath
October 15, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Delighted to welcome Assoc. Prof Roy Flechner’s 3rd year class on “History from below: Rural life in the middle ages (HIS32800)”, to our Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, where we explored daily life and work in an early medieval Irish rath
UCD 2025/26 academic year is beginning!
First up, ARCH30500: Experimental Archaeology & Ancient Technologies led by Dr Brendan O’Neill
Our third years (and some MSc students) on a week long course making pottery, casting bronze, making huts in one day using hazel and natural ties, etc
First up, ARCH30500: Experimental Archaeology & Ancient Technologies led by Dr Brendan O’Neill
Our third years (and some MSc students) on a week long course making pottery, casting bronze, making huts in one day using hazel and natural ties, etc
September 4, 2025 at 5:53 AM
UCD 2025/26 academic year is beginning!
First up, ARCH30500: Experimental Archaeology & Ancient Technologies led by Dr Brendan O’Neill
Our third years (and some MSc students) on a week long course making pottery, casting bronze, making huts in one day using hazel and natural ties, etc
First up, ARCH30500: Experimental Archaeology & Ancient Technologies led by Dr Brendan O’Neill
Our third years (and some MSc students) on a week long course making pottery, casting bronze, making huts in one day using hazel and natural ties, etc
Shane Smith, filmmaker, & colleagues are filming a movie in the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture today, “Stone Elegy”
“A mythic tale of connection and survival set against the vivid landscapes of ancient Ireland.”
You can support the film on Instagram @thinveil_pictures
“A mythic tale of connection and survival set against the vivid landscapes of ancient Ireland.”
You can support the film on Instagram @thinveil_pictures
July 29, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Shane Smith, filmmaker, & colleagues are filming a movie in the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture today, “Stone Elegy”
“A mythic tale of connection and survival set against the vivid landscapes of ancient Ireland.”
You can support the film on Instagram @thinveil_pictures
“A mythic tale of connection and survival set against the vivid landscapes of ancient Ireland.”
You can support the film on Instagram @thinveil_pictures
“Experimental archaeology: making, understanding, storytelling” www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
June 25, 2025 at 11:35 PM
“Experimental archaeology: making, understanding, storytelling” www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
June 7, 2025 at 2:39 PM
June 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
June 7, 2025 at 2:37 PM
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture busy for UCD Festival 2025
June 7, 2025 at 2:36 PM
UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture busy for UCD Festival 2025
Hi Rebecca, happy to advise in full detail. If hazel rods to hand, takes 3-4 weeks to build this 5m diameter house. This house used c2,000 hazel rods. It was professionally thatched using oaten straw, so more time and cost. We’d advise starting smaller. You also have a range of other house options?
May 22, 2025 at 7:44 AM
Hi Rebecca, happy to advise in full detail. If hazel rods to hand, takes 3-4 weeks to build this 5m diameter house. This house used c2,000 hazel rods. It was professionally thatched using oaten straw, so more time and cost. We’d advise starting smaller. You also have a range of other house options?
Building a bed (imda) using our own hazel in our early medieval roundhouse for UCD Festival on 7th June 2025, as part of our “Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)” project
May 21, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Building a bed (imda) using our own hazel in our early medieval roundhouse for UCD Festival on 7th June 2025, as part of our “Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)” project
Delighted to welcome to UCD CEAMC Dr Rebecca Boyd and Dr Marie-Therese Barratt, from the IAC team working on publishing Drumclay crannog, for a good long chat about early medieval roundhouses, their architecture, uses, and longevity
May 10, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Delighted to welcome to UCD CEAMC Dr Rebecca Boyd and Dr Marie-Therese Barratt, from the IAC team working on publishing Drumclay crannog, for a good long chat about early medieval roundhouses, their architecture, uses, and longevity
Interested in any of our Postgraduate Taught programmes at UCD School of Archaeology - MSc and Graduate Diploma (on -campus) and Graduate Certifcate (online)? Apply now for 2025/2026
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
April 8, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Interested in any of our Postgraduate Taught programmes at UCD School of Archaeology - MSc and Graduate Diploma (on -campus) and Graduate Certifcate (online)? Apply now for 2025/2026
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...
What a fantastic day at CEAMC! Our students finally made their brooches - they prepared everything including the molds- this is part of our MSc Module in Practical Experimental Archaeology- coordinated by Dr Brendan O’Neill! Look at the joy on their faces and the beauty of their work! 🤩🤩🤩
April 4, 2025 at 1:10 PM
What a fantastic day at CEAMC! Our students finally made their brooches - they prepared everything including the molds- this is part of our MSc Module in Practical Experimental Archaeology- coordinated by Dr Brendan O’Neill! Look at the joy on their faces and the beauty of their work! 🤩🤩🤩
Stop 3 of Discovering Ireland Module at UCD School of Archaeology , coordinated by Dr Ryan Lash): our students have Fore Abbey as class-room!
March 23, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Stop 3 of Discovering Ireland Module at UCD School of Archaeology , coordinated by Dr Ryan Lash): our students have Fore Abbey as class-room!
Stop 2: Loughcrew Passage Tomb - of Discovering Ireland Module led by Dr Ryan Lash at UCD School of Archaeology! Our students get to experience the beauty of Irish landscape and past all in one place! Thank you to Cara and Julie for their help!
March 23, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Stop 2: Loughcrew Passage Tomb - of Discovering Ireland Module led by Dr Ryan Lash at UCD School of Archaeology! Our students get to experience the beauty of Irish landscape and past all in one place! Thank you to Cara and Julie for their help!
In the 12th century Life of Colmáin Maic Luachain, there’s a short paragraph explaining how to build a house (it’s a metaphor, “one thing at a time”), effectively it says how do you build a house? Well, you weave in a hazel rod, one rod at a time, and slowly the house gets built.
March 23, 2025 at 11:58 AM
In the 12th century Life of Colmáin Maic Luachain, there’s a short paragraph explaining how to build a house (it’s a metaphor, “one thing at a time”), effectively it says how do you build a house? Well, you weave in a hazel rod, one rod at a time, and slowly the house gets built.
Kells Monastery! Stop 1 of yet another excellent field trip organised by Dr Ryan Lash at UCD School of Archaeology for the Module Discovering Ireland- open to all UCD’ students. Today the field trip is supported by our tutor Cara and our PhD student Julie! 🇮🇪
March 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Kells Monastery! Stop 1 of yet another excellent field trip organised by Dr Ryan Lash at UCD School of Archaeology for the Module Discovering Ireland- open to all UCD’ students. Today the field trip is supported by our tutor Cara and our PhD student Julie! 🇮🇪
Dyeing fabric in replica early medieval pots, Irish souterrain ware and imported French E-ware - beautiful emerging colours of orange, red and purple
#EarlyMedievalPeopleAndThings #EMPAT
#EarlyMedievalPeopleAndThings #EMPAT
March 21, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Dyeing fabric in replica early medieval pots, Irish souterrain ware and imported French E-ware - beautiful emerging colours of orange, red and purple
#EarlyMedievalPeopleAndThings #EMPAT
#EarlyMedievalPeopleAndThings #EMPAT
Great day here at the Centre - our students are learning how to set up an organic fiber and dye garden for their projects! We are using wool, wood cuttings and leaf mulch to clear the ground!
March 20, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Great day here at the Centre - our students are learning how to set up an organic fiber and dye garden for their projects! We are using wool, wood cuttings and leaf mulch to clear the ground!