“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times…”

Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities

Photo: James Eogan, NRA
Photo: James Eogan, NRA
Aerial view of Woodstown, Co. Waterford
test trenches, facing NE.
Photo courtesy of James Eogan, NRA
Pollen and non-pollen palynomorphs
Plant macrofossils
Wood and charcoal
Diatoms and Foraminifera
Beetles

Diagram by Emma Tetlow

Meso li thic 5000 BC
Meso li thic
Meso li thic 5000 BC
Neo li thic 3500 BC
Neo li thic and E arly Br onz e
Neo li thic 3500 BC
Ear ly Br onze 2500 BC
Ear ly Br onze 2500 BC
Middle Bronze 1500 BC
Middle Bronze Age 1500
Middle Bronze 1500 BC
Ir on Age 1 BC
Ir on Age and M edi eval
Ir on Age 1 BC
Medieval AD 1500
Medieval AD 1500
 Part Two

Knowledge, value and the Celtic tiger.

“ The success of any archaeological project must be judged
primarily by the research questions/issues it sets out to
answer and the knowledge it produces. With some
exceptions, the current preoccupation of the development-led
archaeology is largely with data/information collection and
management rather than the quest for knowledge. To
address this situation, immediate priority must be given to
the standardisation of data collection/recording and to its
interpretation by directors and other archaeologists involved
in excavation projects.”

UCD 2006. Archaeology 2020: Repositioning Irish Archaeology

in the knowledge Economy. p35
“The lack of fully published final reports on archaeological
excavations has become of increasing concern in recent years. This means that
we are not getting the return we should be getting from the massive increase we
have seen in development led excavations.”

Department of Environment, Heritage, and Local Government. 2007. Review of

Archaeological Policy and Practice in Ireland: Identifying the Issues. 13.