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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

@martinmoucheron.bsky.social and my recent fieldwork at Ferriter's Cove featured on TG4 (Irish language) news. Starts at 6.18. Support from @researchireland.ie, @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, @nationalmons.bsky.social. Tx to Sean Mac an tSithigh for the story. www.tg4.ie/ga/search/se...

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Seinnteoir | Irish Television Channel, Súil Eile

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Research Ireland @researchireland.ie · 27/08/2026

New research has rewritten a key chapter in Irish prehistory, revealing that bones long thought to mark the beginning of farming in Ireland belong to bear and wild boar, not cattle. Read more on @news.rte.ie: www.rte.ie/news/munster... @ucddublin.bsky.social @ucc.ie

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martinmoucheron.bsky.social @martinmoucheron.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

... And thanks to a mighty push way beyond office hours (and in a soft weather) with Conor McDermott @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social, the final micromorph block was lifted. Chinwag and chocolate might have been had for a wee bit, but sure what you do, plaster was setting... 2/2

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martinmoucheron.bsky.social @martinmoucheron.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Ferriter's Cove FINAL day. While Deborah @naikaiouk.bsky.social was sternly but patiently teaching the basics of recording to promising novice @graemewarren.bsky.social, Maighread staked out the last cores - this very one right under our pile of gear. Classic. 1/2

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Visit from Gabriel Cooney and @aidanosullivan.bsky.social today - here being shown around by Deborah @naikaiouk.bsky.social . And traditional last day recording! Five eroding sections of (presumably) Final Mesolithic archaeology cleaned, sampled and recorded. Now back to Dublin and some analysis...

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Also rounded pebble, clearly part of a cultural deposit of shells. Not sure why! And @martinmoucheron.bsky.social removing more block samples.

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Ferriter's Cove 26: More large rhyolite flakes and core fragments, all with lots of charcoal at the base of a very bioturbated occupation soil

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martinmoucheron.bsky.social @martinmoucheron.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Day 5 in Ferriter's Cove. Deborah Nagle @naikaiouk.bsky.social delivering her very first soil micromorph baby. Very steady pair of hands. In the end there were two of them to capture the whole sequence - you could call them twins, I suppose. @graemewarren.bsky.social is the godfather of course.

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martinmoucheron.bsky.social @martinmoucheron.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Then Billy enraptured the sizeable crowd as Gaeilge with a fantastic array of objects and food to bring the Mesolithic to life. Thanks Caitríona and West Kerry Museum, we gave it all for this Heritage Week event in partnership with IAI @iaiarchaeo.bsky.social. Go raibh maith agaibh!

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martinmoucheron.bsky.social @martinmoucheron.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

There's always something happening in Ferriter's Cove. Today Kate defeated the final boss - North Field Pt1 - before leaving. With Pt2 in the bag before lunch that's a mag wrap for the project!

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 22/08/2026

Ferriter's Cove - Day 4: not a bad view from site today... And the slow excavation of our first artefact, a rather large rhyolite flake. (2cm sticking out of the section turns into this!)

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Day 3 (part 2): @martinmoucheron.bsky.social in a fairly dramatic location for geofizz...

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martinmoucheron.bsky.social @martinmoucheron.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Then @graemewarren.bsky.social, Deborah Nagle @naikaiouk.bsky.social and Jo Brück hurt the stratigraphy so much it had to be bandaged. 2/2

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martinmoucheron.bsky.social @martinmoucheron.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Day 3 at Ferriter's Cove. Before my phone got conscripted to keep the GPS churning: Kate bowing to the Magnetic Lord (or clipping herself to the battery harness... which is pretty much the same) HAIL TO THE MAGNETIC LORD! (Great job Kate and Freddy!) 1/2

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Day 3: a visit from colleagues @nationalmons.bsky.social. Great discussion about the site, research and how to manage loss. Also joined by eminent colleagues escaping the Bronze Age! Sampling proceeding apace, including @martinmoucheron.bsky.social block samples for microstratigraphic analysis.

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martinmoucheron.bsky.social @martinmoucheron.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

... While @graemewarren.bsky.social is vertically excavating (some amazing layers. Upstairs, downstairs, and whatnot. I tell you, Kerry is treating us well - go raibh maith agaibh a Piaras agus a Eoinin for letting us access our site safely, and trample your grass in search of the Mesolithic. 2/2

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martinmoucheron.bsky.social @martinmoucheron.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

In the meantime at Ferriter's Cove: UCC Archaeology Ben and Rosie animating the waving robot (aka core extraction) and York Archaeology student Kate starring as The Master Headbanger. 1/2

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

More cleaning, recoding and sampling at Ferriter's Cove w/ @martinmoucheron.bsky.social : shell layers, charcoal - and loads of really good questions about site formation to be answered (hopefully!) by our samples... Tx to @ucdarchaeology.bsky.social @researchireland.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social

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Graeme Warren @graemewarren.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

A fine first day of fieldwork at Ferriter's Cove with @martinmoucheron.bsky.social and colleagues. Cleaning and recording eroding sections with (presumably Final Mesolithic) shell layers, ahead of sampling tomorrow. 1/2

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martinmoucheron.bsky.social @martinmoucheron.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

Maighread (left) & Andy are not small. They're far away. Quite the big field to survey with Ground-Penetrating Radar... Thanks to @researchireland.ie for their financial support, and to our own UCD School of Civil Engineering for their collaboration. 2/2

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martinmoucheron.bsky.social @martinmoucheron.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

First day in the field at Ferriter's Cove. While @graemewarren.bsky.social and colleagues clean and record eroding sections, we turn on our machines to try and sense signs of human presence 6000 years old. Bustin' makes me feel good. 1/2

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martinmoucheron.bsky.social @martinmoucheron.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I swear it wasn't planned: leaving today for some fieldwork in Ferriter's Cove, and this dropped. Many thanks to @researchireland.ie for supporting my postdoc, to @graemewarren.bsky.social for mentoring me, and to all the nice people who took part in poking at those bits of bone.

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