Medieval History
One of the finest examples of a medieval fish trap in Europe is going to be washed away before its secrets can be recorded, scientists have claimed.
A 700-year-old giant wooden weir, once used by monks and to keep local lords in Co Clare trading, cannot be fully preserved because it is exposed to the forces of nature.
And with budget cuts hitting the Heritage Council there is no money to properly analyse and record the huge structure.
Click here to read this article from the Whitby Gazette
Click here to read Irish medieval fishing site will be ?lost to the tide? from Medievalists.net
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Medieval History
Medieval weir 'will be washed away'
One of the finest examples of a medieval fish trap in Europe is going to be washed away before its secrets can be recorded, scientists have claimed.
A 700-year-old giant wooden weir, once used by monks and to keep local lords in Co Clare trading, cannot be fully preserved because it is exposed to the forces of nature.
And with budget cuts hitting the Heritage Council there is no money to properly analyse and record the huge structure.
Click here to read this article from the Whitby Gazette
Click here to read Irish medieval fishing site will be ?lost to the tide? from Medievalists.net
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The once-majestic 17th-century Palazzo Manfrin, one of this city?s most important architectural sites, is falling apart. Its white neoclassical facade is crumbling, several wooden doors are splintering, and its floor-to-ceiling frescoes have faded from...
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- St Bride's Bay Grave Remains Recorded By Archaeologists
Archaeologists are excavating early medieval remains from a cemetery before they are washed away by the sea. It is known the site at St Bride's Bay in Pembrokeshire contains graves that date back to the 9th and 10th Centuries. The graves are close...
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