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The Archaeology of Irish Salt – fatalities and accidents

11/11/2015by iresalt Leave a comment

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 […]

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Carrickfergus and the discovery of Irish rock salt

06/11/2015by iresalt Leave a comment

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 […]

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Recent Posts

  • Archaeology Ireland feature
  • Return to Sligo…
  • Salt at the World Archaeology Congress
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  • The Archaeology of Irish Salt – Review of progress

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