New Publication
Hi everyone – its been a while but we are still working away on writing up and the Post-Medieval Archaeology Journal has just published the latest paper from the project. […]
Hi everyone – its been a while but we are still working away on writing up and the Post-Medieval Archaeology Journal has just published the latest paper from the project. […]
We are delighted that World Archaeology journal has just published our new paper Persistence and risk: salt production in post-medieval Ireland in their most recent edition. This paper employs our flagship site […]
The latest edition of Archaeology Ireland (Vol. 31, no. 3) is celebrating the publication’s 30th year in print as a valuable means of communicating archaeological discoveries to both professionals and the […]
On a recent trip to Sligo I was reminded of that county’s impressive archaeology and it’s salt heritage. The kind invitation of the Sligo Field Club to give a lecture […]
Greetings from Kyoto where the findings of The Archaeology of Salt in Ireland project are being presented to the 8th World Archaeology Congress (WAC)! The congress is being held at […]
Active fieldwork has finished but work continues in trawling through documentary and cartographic sources to inform the findings of the salt project. For our flagship site at Ballycastle the archives […]
The Archaeology of Salt Production project began in January 2014 and has now completed its two-year mission to identify the remains of all historic-era salt works around our coast. In […]
The discovery of an Irish source of rock salt seems to have been somewhat haphazard, as in the early part of the 19th century naturally occurring brine was known in […]
Halloween may have just past, but in researching the historical salt works around the Irish coast we uncovered a few gruesome incidents fit for late night story-telling! On the 19th November […]
The earliest, and indeed the only, known occurrence of rock salt mining in Ireland took place in the halite beds of south-east Antrim. Although rock salt was not successfully mined […]