The speaker will be Dr Cormac McSparron, a Postdoctoral Fellow at Queen's University in Belfast. Dr McSparron's 50/60-minute lecture is entitled
The Excavation of a Neolithic Portal Tomb at Tirnony, Maghera (County Derry/Londonderry
).
In 2010 one of the stones supporting the structure of Tirnony Dolmen collapsed into the interior of the tomb. An excavation was carried out to record the deposits around and inside the tomb which risked being damaged during the restoration. The excavation revealed a complex monument with evidence for human burial and ritual in the Neolithic period.
Dr Cormac McSparron directed the excavations at Tirnony Dolmen. In 2020 he published Burials and Society in Late Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Ireland (Archaeopress Archaeology) and has a wide range of research interests.
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