Archaeology C14 Radiocarbon Dates Scheme Reports
Archaeology Radiocarbon Dates scheme Awarded 2023
06 September 2023Please click download to view a list of the most recent Radiocarbon Dates Grants awarded. Individual reports will be published here in 2024.
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Investigating the chronology of the bog butter assemblage in Northern Ireland
02 July 2023A total of five bog butters from the collections of the National Museum of Northern Ireland – Ulster Museum were sampled for radiocarbon dating, to address a core research gap.
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Animals and the Economy of Medieval Ireland: A Zooarchaeological Analysis of the Faunal Remains from Caherconnell Cashel, Co Clare
02 July 2023This project involves a zooarchaeological analysis of the animal bone assemblage from Caherconnell stone fort, Co. Clare. It is part of a major inter-disciplinary study of Caherconnell.
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Prehistoric land division in Brú na Bóinne – dating a coaxial field system in Dowth, Co. Meath
02 July 2023The project objective was to date the coaxial field system (ME020-081---) in the Old Racecourse Field in Dowth, and to determine whether it was contemporaneous with one of its intra-field enclosures.
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Insular crosier dating project (Part 2)
02 July 2023Four radiocarbon dates were granted for the dating of four elaborately decorated early medieval Irish crosiers as part of the 2021 scheme. Successful dates were achieved for three of the four crosiers.
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Excavation of the Prehistoric Axe Manufacturing Site at the storm beach at Ballaghaline, near Fisherstreet, Doolin in Co. Clare.
02 July 2023The excavation has shown that the manufacture of shale axe roughouts took place here with the production of other shale tools. RC dates show that this activity took place during the Mesolithic period
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31 March 2022Please click download to view a list of the most recent Radiocarbon Dates Grants awarded. Individual reports will be published here in 2023.
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Excavations at Beaubec, Bey More, Co. Meath
28 October 2021The Beaubec Excavations team was awarded to acquire a date for what was believed to be a Late Neolithic pit circle.
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Timber row, Dugort beach, Achill Island Co Mayo
28 October 2021In June 2015 a series of preserved wooden stakes were noted within an intertidal peat formation at Dugort, Achill Island, co. Mayo.
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Dating of system of perimeter banks on Knocknashee hill, Co. Sligo
28 October 2021In August 2020 excavation was undertaken of a section of the system of perimeter banks at the suspected Bronze Age hillfort of Knocknashee, Co. Sligo.
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Radiocarbon dating human remains from Glencurran Cave, Co. Clare
25 June 2021Please click download to view a report on this project which was funded under the 2020 Archaeology Radiocarbon dates scheme
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Excavation at Doolin Storm Beach, Ballaghaline, Co. Clare
25 June 2021Please click download to view a report on this project which was funded under the 2020 Archaeology Radiocarbon dates scheme.
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Staad Climate and Environmental Change Project
25 June 2021Please click download to view a report on this project which was funded under the 2019 Archaeology Radiocarbon dates scheme.
Download Archaeology C14 Radiocarbon Dates Scheme Awarded 2020
22 June 2020Please click download to view a list of the most recent Archaeology C14 Radiocarbon Dates scheme awarded. Individual reports will be published here in 2021.
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New Radiocarbon Dates from a Middle Bronze Age Enclosed Settlement at Knockhouse Lower Co. Waterford.
01 November 2019This project focuses on re-dating material from the excavation of a Middle Bronze Age (MBA) enclosed roundhouse at Knockhouse Lower, Co. Waterford (03E1033).
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14 June 2019Funding for three samples was received under the Royal Irish Academy Radiocarbon Dates Scheme. The samples were taken from pottery from Seán P. Ó Ríordáin's 1940 excavations at Site C.
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05 December 2018Three radiocarbon dates were obtained for the excavation 14E109 at the ‘Cromlech Tumulus’ and ‘Danish Ditch’, Slievemore, Keel East, Achill Island, Co. Mayo (MA042-021002-; MA042-021003-).
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