Significant archaeological discoveries on display in Dungarvan this week
The pop-up exhibition was launched this past Friday, August 14, at the Dungarvan Shopping Centre. Photo: Waterford County Museum
Some of Waterford's most significant archaeological discoveries are on display this week at Dungarvan Shopping Centre for National Heritage Week.
This fascinating pop-up exhibition showcases discoveries from the recent excavation at the Cappagh Quarry, including a remarkable almost 6,000-year-old Neolithic polished stone axe, prehistoric pottery, and other artefacts that reveal thousands of years of human activity in Waterford.
The exhibition will be on display at Dungarvan Shopping Centre every day this week up until Saturday, August 22, from 11-5pm.
Gillian McCarthy, site director for Rubicon Archaeology will also give a detailed talk at the Town Hall Theatre in Dungarvan tonight (Wednesday, 19 August) from 7 – 8pm on the recent discoveries found in the area and what they can tell us about life in this part of Waterford thousands of years ago.
The free exhibition brings together a selection of photographs from the Museum’s extensive online image archive with a fascinating showcase by Rubicon Archaeology of their recent excavations at Cappagh Quarry, near Dungarvan.
Among the remarkable discoveries at Cappagh are two Bronze Age ring-ditches, including a cemetery containing 21 human cremations, and the first two Neolithic houses ever excavated in County Waterford.
The photographs on display are just a small selection from the hundreds of historic local images that can be viewed in the Museum’s online image archive at www.waterfordmuseum.ie.
