Investigating the peat bogs of Ireland

 

Leather shoe from Toar Bog, Co. Westmeath.

Leather shoe from Toar Bog, Co. Westmeath.

I am the Bord Na Móna Project Archaeologist and this year we are inaugurating a new 3 year campaign of archaeological and palaeoenvironmental investigations in the peatlands of Ireland. This is a link to my contribution to Day of Archaeology 2014 on the work.