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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture celebrated in one of UCD’s new banners! This image is inspired by a passage in the Old Irish ‘Immram Curaig Mael Dúin’, where the hero enters a house to see gold and silver brooches on the walls This brooch made by Brendan O’Neill

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

Dr Anita Radini is growing dye-plants at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, such as madder, woad and weld. And they’ll be used by our own students in dyeing textiles It’s time to apply for our online Grad Cert or our on-campus MSc/GradDip Experimental Archaeology

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, Dublin - where dreams come through 🙂

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

UCD Archaeology students doing their experimental archaeology practicals today, as they do every Friday at CEAMC! This week, stone carving and flint knapping with Dr Anita Radini and Dr Ryan Lash, assisted ably by Lucy Robinson and Deborah Buchanan.

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Delighted to welcome Assoc. Prof Roy Flechner’s 3rd year class on “History from below: Rural life in the middle ages (HIS32800)”, to our Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture, where we explored daily life and work in an early medieval Irish rath

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

UCD 2025/26 academic year is beginning! First up, ARCH30500: Experimental Archaeology & Ancient Technologies led by Dr Brendan O’Neill Our third years (and some MSc students) on a week long course making pottery, casting bronze, making huts in one day using hazel and natural ties, etc

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Shane Smith, filmmaker, & colleagues are filming a movie in the UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture today, “Stone Elegy” “A mythic tale of connection and survival set against the vivid landscapes of ancient Ireland.” You can support the film on Instagram @thinveil_pictures

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 26/06/2025

“Experimental archaeology: making, understanding, storytelling” www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture busy for UCD Festival 2025

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Hi Rebecca, happy to advise in full detail. If hazel rods to hand, takes 3-4 weeks to build this 5m diameter house. This house used c2,000 hazel rods. It was professionally thatched using oaten straw, so more time and cost. We’d advise starting smaller. You also have a range of other house options?

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Building a bed (imda) using our own hazel in our early medieval roundhouse for UCD Festival on 7th June 2025, as part of our “Early Medieval People and Things (EMPAT)” project

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Delighted to welcome to UCD CEAMC Dr Rebecca Boyd and Dr Marie-Therese Barratt, from the IAC team working on publishing Drumclay crannog, for a good long chat about early medieval roundhouses, their architecture, uses, and longevity

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 08/04/2025

Interested in any of our Postgraduate Taught programmes at UCD School of Archaeology - MSc and Graduate Diploma (on -campus) and Graduate Certifcate (online)? Apply now for 2025/2026 www.ucd.ie/archaeology/...

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 04/04/2025

What a fantastic day at CEAMC! Our students finally made their brooches - they prepared everything including the molds- this is part of our MSc Module in Practical Experimental Archaeology- coordinated by Dr Brendan O’Neill! Look at the joy on their faces and the beauty of their work! 🤩🤩🤩

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Stop 3 of Discovering Ireland Module at UCD School of Archaeology , coordinated by Dr Ryan Lash): our students have Fore Abbey as class-room!

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Stop 2: Loughcrew Passage Tomb - of Discovering Ireland Module led by Dr Ryan Lash at UCD School of Archaeology! Our students get to experience the beauty of Irish landscape and past all in one place! Thank you to Cara and Julie for their help!

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

In the 12th century Life of Colmáin Maic Luachain, there’s a short paragraph explaining how to build a house (it’s a metaphor, “one thing at a time”), effectively it says how do you build a house? Well, you weave in a hazel rod, one rod at a time, and slowly the house gets built.

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Kells Monastery! Stop 1 of yet another excellent field trip organised by Dr Ryan Lash at UCD School of Archaeology for the Module Discovering Ireland- open to all UCD’ students. Today the field trip is supported by our tutor Cara and our PhD student Julie! 🇮🇪

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Dyeing fabric in replica early medieval pots, Irish souterrain ware and imported French E-ware - beautiful emerging colours of orange, red and purple #EarlyMedievalPeopleAndThings #EMPAT

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Great day here at the Centre - our students are learning how to set up an organic fiber and dye garden for their projects! We are using wool, wood cuttings and leaf mulch to clear the ground!

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

Any guess of where we are today with our students at UCD School of Archaeology?

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Come and join us at UCD open day for postgraduate studies! We are in O’Reilly Hall!

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Our field trip for the module #ARCH2017 Discovering Ireland Landscape at UCD School of Archaeology (coordinated by Dr Ryan Lash) ends in a glorious sunshine at Ballymoon Castle - can you imagine a better classroom for your studies? Thank you to our School tutors Ellie and Cara for the help today!

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

These are our students taking the Module ARCH20170 Discovering Ireland Landscape learning about Brownshill Megalithic Portal Tomb - and Dr Ryan Lash (UCD School of Archaeology) introducing them to Ireland extraordinary past!

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

What a wonderful start of the day with our very own Dr Ryan Lash leading a fantastic field trip for the module ARCH20170 Discovering Ireland Landscape! Glorious day, very engaging talk and equally engaged students! The module is open to all students @ucddublin.bsky.social

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Our Centre hosts a wide range of teaching and research activities! Here are some pictures!

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

But in the 12th century parody text, Aislinge Meic Conglinne (The dream of Meic Conglinne), arriving at a monastery, he found that last night's bath water was still in the tub, and it contained "cool stones", also from the night before 😳 4/

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Travellers could expect such bathing facilities in early medieval Ireland, as hospitality was a ethical, moral and legal obligation, and compensation could be claimed if it was not provided!

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

In early medieval law, a prosperous farmer was required to own a washing-trough (ambur indlat) & bathtub (long floilcthe). Water for a guest should be clean and hot, but not too hot! One of the worst welcomes in any house was 'scalding water upon the feet' (uisce ro-the dar cosa) 2/

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

UCD’s Graduate Certificate in Experimental Archaeology and Material Culture (Online/Distance Learning) is a part-time, online, distance learning course designed to provide students with an understanding of rôle of experimental archaeology in understanding material culture hub.ucd.ie/usis/!W_HU_M...

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

We offer an MSc, or Graduate Diploma (both on-campus) or Graduate Certificate (online, Distance Learning) in Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture programmes. Lots of seminars, workshops, practicals every Friday or also options - if online -to travel to Ireland for a week’s crafts & making

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 27/08/2023

Boiling hot water using stones and a bucket at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture at University College Dublin, Ireland Early Irish sources offer abundant evidence for the importance of personal hygiene. Travellers were always offered food, a bed, and hot water to wash with.

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Making, firing &analysing pottery at UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture at University College Dublin, Ireland We explore techniques of making, we fire in different ways (bonfires, kilns) and we examine authentic, original ceramics (e.g. medieval cooking wares in this image)

UCD students making a large grooved ware pot

UCD student examining medieval ceramics (Leinster Cooking Ware) from an archaeological excavation

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UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture @experimentarchaeol.bsky.social · 21/08/2023

So, here we go. This is the new BlueSky account for UCD Centre for Experimental Archaeology & Material Culture at University College Dublin, Ireland.

Reconstruction of an early medieval house in the snow

Replica medieval pottery being fired in a bonfire

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