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IRELAND'S OLDEST ARCHAEOLOGY FIELD SCHOOL Benefit from our experience ACCREDITED EXCAVATION COURSES Up to 9 semester credits available. LEARN TO DIG IN ONE OF IRELAND’S MOST SPECTACULAR ARCHAEOLOGICAL LANDSCAPES. Do you want to learn to dig in one of Ireland’s most spectacular archaeological landscapes? Located on Achill Island off Ireland’s no other. From May to September we run excavation and survey courses fully accredited by the National University of Ireland Galway. We We provide the best possible hands-on technical and academic training for students from around the world (for a list of schools we have provides a higher tier of training for more experienced students. Since 1991 the Field School has been engaged in a diachronic investigation of Achill’s archaeological landscapes, from the remains of the earliest Neolithic settlers to Famine-era vernacular settlements. In 2019, our field school will be based at the is a sand-covered peninsula well-known for its rich historical remains including an Early Medieval enclosure, an infant burial ground, several shell middens, deposits of dog-whelk shells used in purple dye-making, and a relict eighte*nth-century settlement. We began a program of work at the site in 2018, and in 2019 we will continue our investigation of the relict settlement and as*ociated middens. Achill Island. Our facility includes a computer lab, office space, a lecture hall and library. Students are accommodated next door in our The School is just 3km away from a noted surfing and wind-surfing beach and overlooked by the spectacular Slievemore and Croaghaun Since 2014 the work of Achill Archaeological Field School has featured as one of the Interactive Digs covered by the Archaeological Institute of America and ARCHAEOLOGY magazine. Our excavations at Caraun Point in 2019 will continue to feature as an Interactive Dig. The Achill Archaeology Field School was established in 1991 and is highly successful in terms of longevity, innovation and research