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Lost infancy: Medieval archaeology in Ireland

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

T.E. McNeill
T.E. McNeill*
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School of Archaeology & Palaeoecology, Queen's University, Belfast BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland. t.mcneill@qub.ac.uk
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Medieval archaeology in Ireland has been described twice in the last 30 years as ‘in its infancy’, by Delaney (1977: 46) andby Barry (1987: 1). Neither was strictly correct. Ireland played a full part in the general English interest in medieval castles and churches around 1900, with Champneys, Orpen and Westropp in particular listing and describing them and relating to their historical and European context. In Ulster the medieval period had occupied a central place in archaeological research and excavation, rcmarkable within Europe and unique within the British Isles, from 1950 (Tope 1966).

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Special section: Archaeology in Ireland
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Antiquity , Volume 76 , Issue 292 , June 2002, pp. 552 - 556
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 2002

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