Events Relating to Waterford's Viking History

The following events relate to Waterford Viking History, and the finds from the Woodstown archaeological dig.

International Viking Conference

Viking Woodstown and Hiberno-Norse Waterford: their Place in the Viking World

26-28 March, 2010, at Waterford Museum of Treasures,

in association with the National Museum of Ireland

Brochure available here as pdf

for further information contact : Donnchdh O Ceallacháin, Waterford Museum of Treasures, Merchants Quay, Waterford, Ireland - tel:353 51 304500

Viking Waterford Conference

 

Migrants Mariners Merchants - November 2006

Archaeological Discoveries on the N25 Waterford Bypass

Waterford Museum of Treasures series of lunchtime talks in conjunction with the free exhibition in the 1st floor gallery.

Free Lunchtime talks

Programme - available here as pdf

lecture series 7 Nov, Meriel McClachey: Food in the Bronze Age
14 Nov, Richard O’Brien: Archaeology & Aerial Photography
21 Nov, Claudia Koehler: The Conservation of the Viking Sword from Woodstown
28 Nov, John Sheehan: The Viking Silver from Woodstown

A Public ARCHAEOLOGY DAY in Lawlor's Hotel and Dungarvan Castle - 25 Nov, 2006

A day to hear what archaeologists have been discovering at County Waterford’s ancient monuments, road routes and development sites and to hear about some of the County’s ancient objects in national collections.

WATERFORD COUNTY COUNCIL Supported by the Heritage Council - ARCHAEOLOGY IN COUNTY WATERFORD

10.00 Welcome Mayor of Dungarvan, Teresa Wright & Waterford County Mayor Mary Greene, Chair.
10.15 County Waterford’s Monuments Maeve O’Callaghan, Archaeologist, the Monuments Service, DoEH&L
10.45 Roads to New Discoveries in County Waterford James Eogan, Archaeologist, NRA, Regional Design Office
11.15 Tea and coffee  
11.30 Woodstown, the Vikings and the River Suir Richard O’Brien, Archaeologist, NRA, Tramore House.
12.00 The Archaeology of Mid-Waterford;
evidence from excavations in advance of the N25 Kilmacthomas Road Realignment Project
John Tierney, Archaeologist, Eachtra Archaeological Projects
12.30 Waterford's first people and the stone tools they left behind: The early prehistory of Waterford Harbour Thomas Kador, Archaeologist, University College Dublin.
1.00 Lunch Available for purchase in hotel etc.
2.00 Tour of Dungarvan Castle David Pollock, Archaeologist, Archaeografix Ltd.
3.00 King John’s Castle—three summers of excavations David Pollock, Archaeologist, Archaeografix Ltd.
3.20 Finds from an early Bronze Age burial
from Lisnakill, Co. Waterford and other artefacts from Co. Waterford in the National Museum of Ireland
Maeve Sikora, Assistant Keeper of Irish Antiquities National Museum of Ireland
3.40 The Dungarvan Valley Caves Project Cóilín O’Drisceoil, Kilkenny Archaeology Ltd.
4.00 Discussion  
5.00 Conclusions  

This event is an action in the Waterford County Heritage Plan 2006 – 2010, supported by the Heritage Council.
More information from Dominic Berridge, Heritage Officer, Waterford County Council, Dungarvan, Co. Waterford. Tel 058 21199
Ian Doyle, Archaeology Officer, The Heritage Council, Rothe House, Kilkenny Tel: 056 - 7770777 | Fax: 056 - 7770788

WORLD FAMOUS VIKING SCHOLAR VISITS WATERFORD February 2006

Professor Richard Hall - Presentation on Ongoing Work on the Site of Ainsbrook Camp

One of the world's leading Viking scholar, Professor Richard Hall, came to Waterford on Wednesday 8th February to present a paper as part of WIT’s ongoing Adult Education lecture series. His paper highlighted the possibility of a new explanation for the Woodstown site – that it had functioned not as a town or as a defended Viking ship base but rather as a market centre, where craftsmen traded with visiting merchants. Professor Hall’s international reputation is based on his excavations of the medieval city of York in the 1970s and his establishment of the phenomenally successful tourist centre of Jorvik. He is currently Academic Director for one of the biggest archaeological contract companies in Britain, the York Archaeological Trust.

The Waterford lecture was the first public presentation of ongoing work on the site of Ainsbrook camp outside York. This camp has produced a range of artefacts similar to those found at Woodstown including large quantities of hack silver, weights, Arabic coins, metal-working waste, clench nails and sword pommels. As at Woodstown, the geophysical examination of the English camp showed extensive activity had taken place within the boundaries of the large rectangular enclosure. His current (2006) interpretation of the York evidence is that this camp functioned as a trading centre for visiting craftsmen and merchants.

 

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