Blackfriary Community Dig Seminar - FREE EVENT - at the Blackfriary Lecture Room on site.

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Blackfriary Community Dig Seminar - FREE EVENT - at the Blackfriary Lecture Room on site.

Saturday, 9th March 2019 at 10.00a.m.

Blackfriary Archaeology Field School would like to invite you to our Community Dig Seminar. This seminar will be on the results of our first season of excavation of the Medieval Gardens Restoration Project.

Blackfriary Archaeology Field School

We are really looking forward to the seminar and have a wonderful line up of lectures ranging from Medieval Trim to Medieval Recipes at Blackfriary! Analysis and dates from the dig in the Monastic Gardens will also be shared at the seminar.

The event takes place on Saturday, 9th March 2019 at 10a.m. at the Blackfriary Lecture Room on site.

Blackfriary Lecture Room,
Blackfriary Archaeology Site,
Griffin Park,
Trim,
Co. Meath.

Seminar Programme 

10.00: Registration, Tea/Coffee. 

10:30-11.10: Finola O Carroll, Site Director, Blackfriary Archaeology Field school ‘Recent findings from the Blackfriary and its gardens’.

11.10-11.50: Dr. Michael Potterton, Maynooth University 'Trim in the time of Geoffrey de Geneville'.

11.50-12.30: Dr Anne-Julie Lafaye IRC Postdoctoral Fellow, University College Cork 'Blackfriary and the Dominicans in Ireland: Landscape, space and architecture'.

12.30-12.50: Tea/Coffee 

12.50- 1.30:  Maeve L’Estrange, PhD Scholar, University College Dublin ‘Seeds and Bones: towards a culinary archaeology of Blackfriary’.