Dr Rebecca Boyd is an archaeologist with a special interest in the houses of early medieval and Viking-Age Ireland. She has published extensively on Ireland’s Viking-Age archaeology,
including writing a book about the archaeology of daily life and the homes found in Ireland’s Viking-Age towns. Rebecca works as Senior Research Archaeologist for IAC Archaeology where she works on compiling final reports and publications across all of the organisation’s excavations
Drumclay Crannog was excavated in 2012-13 revealing a remarkable sequence of occupation beginning in the 9th century AD. Crannogs are man-made islands found across
Ireland and Scotland dating from prehistoric times to the medieval period. Drumclay is a medieval crannog with spectacular archaeological preservation of houses, yards, artefacts and animal and plant remains. A team of 35+ specialists have been involved in the post- excavation analysis of this assemblage, including archaeologists, artefact specialists, chronologists, environmental archaeologists, historians, geologists, and researchers. This multidisciplinary analysis has allowed us to reconstruct life at Drumclay, with its peaks and dips in activity at the site over ten centuries. This talk will be wide-ranging, with an introduction to the scale and quality of the archaeology excavated as well as the breadth of analyses undertaken. Together, we will explore how all these analyses have been brought together to unearth the story of life at Drumclay.
