• Home
  • Services
    • Heritage and Archaeological Consultancy
    • Archaeological Fieldwork Services
    • Specialist and post-excavation services
  • About us
    • Rubicon Team
    • Fair Pay and Career Development
    • Health and Safety
    • Privacy Policy
  • Vacancies
    • UK
    • Ireland
    • Germany
  • Germany
  • Media
  • Contact
  • News
Rubicon Archaeology
  • Home
  • Services
    • Heritage and Archaeological Consultancy
    • Archaeological Fieldwork Services
    • Specialist and post-excavation services
  • About us
    • Rubicon Team
    • Fair Pay and Career Development
    • Health and Safety
    • Privacy Policy
  • Vacancies
    • UK
    • Ireland
    • Germany
  • Germany
  • Media
  • Contact
  • News

RUBICON ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS

Wessex Gold, Irish Lives - New Story Map!

4/3/2022

 
We have just published a new StoryMap revisiting a site we dug in 2006. You can view it via the link below!
Picture
Composite image showing the Wessex-type gold bead cover with the burnt human bone recovered from the Mucklagh 2 cremation burial.
At Mucklagh 2, excavated as part of the N52 Tullamore Bypass for Offaly County Council and Transport Infrastructure Ireland, we identified a unique Bronze Age link between Co. Offaly in the centre of Ireland and Wessex, via a gold object and an antler awl found within the cremation burial of an adult and a child. ​
The StoryMap repurposes research undertaken by our osteoarchaeologists and paleoenvironmental team which was originally published in Offaly Heritage: Journal of the Offaly Historical and Archaeological Society by Carmelita Troy and Susan Lalonde (2011 'Bronze Age Bling - Wessex gold in an Offaly burial') and presented as a poster (Wessex Gold, Irish Lives) by Carmelita, Susan and Karen Stewart.
Portions of the text are edited from an earlier blog post, written by Damian Shiels. Rubicon Heritage gratefully acknowledges the help of Mary Cahill and Paul Mullarkey at the National Museum of Ireland for their work in identifying the bead cover and creating illustrations and images of the artefact. Thanks must also be extended to Orlaith Egan of Transport Infrastructure Ireland, Offaly County Council and Linda Hegarty, Archaeological Director, for her original excavation. 
Rubicon Heritage are very grateful to Wiltshire Museum for kind permission to reproduce images from their online archive collection within the StoryMap.
​
Michael Stanley of Transport Infrastructure Ireland and Carmelita Troy gave invaluable assistance in editing the text and content of the StoryMap, which was produced by Jonathan Millar on behalf of Rubicon Heritage Services Ltd.
​

Comments are closed.

This section will not be visible in live published website. Below are your current settings:


Current Number Of Columns are = 2

Expand Posts Area =

Gap/Space Between Posts = 10px

Blog Post Style = card

Use of custom card colors instead of default colors =

Blog Post Card Background Color = current color

Blog Post Card Shadow Color = current color

Blog Post Card Border Color = current color

Publish the website and visit your blog page to see the results

Picture
Copyright© 2025 Rubicon Archaeology Limited. 
All rights reserved.


  • Home
  • Services
    • Heritage and Archaeological Consultancy
    • Archaeological Fieldwork Services
    • Specialist and post-excavation services
  • About us
    • Rubicon Team
    • Fair Pay and Career Development
    • Health and Safety
    • Privacy Policy
  • Vacancies
    • UK
    • Ireland
    • Germany
  • Germany
  • Media
  • Contact
  • News