Abstract
AN authoritative article on recent Irish excavations by Mr. Sean F. O'Riordan, of the National Museum of Ireland, appears in the April number of Discovery. During the year 1934, the National Museum received an unusual number of accessions of exceptional interest as the result of casual discovery. Among these were the remarkable gold gorget of about 700 B.C. from Co. Clare, the bronze age wooden shield?only the second known?from Co. Mayo, the fine Middle Bronze Age rapier from Co. Tipperary and much noteworthy Viking material from Co. Dublin. The greatest advance in the study of Irish archaeology, however, has been due to the participation of archaeologists in carrying out the Government's scheme for unemployment. This has made possible systematic investigation on an extended scale on an unprecedented number of sites. No less than twelve excavations were carried out in various parts of the country, ranging in date of the period under investigation from post-glacial times to the fifteenth century A.D. The number of workmen engaged on individual sites in these operations varied from twelve on the smallest to fifty on the largest.
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Recent Archæological Finds in Ireland. Nature 135, 536 (1935). https://doi.org/10.1038/135536a0
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