Hundreds of volunteers have helped unearth artefacts at site in St Anne’s Park
Archaeologist and site director James Kyle with artefacts found at the site of the old Guinness family mansion in St Anne's Park, north Dublin . Photograph: Bryan O’Brien, a glass ink well, monogrammed tiles and marbles – just a few of the treasures unearthed by 250 volunteers digging at the site of theDating back to 1873, St Anne’s House was home to brewer Arthur Guinness ’s grandson, Sir Arthur Edward Guinness or Lord Ardilaun.
Artefacts discovered on the dig were put on display out front at the “finds table” so that observers and passersby could inspect these remnants of the past. Like McAdam, uncovering the mosaic tiling was a highlight of the four-week course for O’Brien. “It was under just a few layers of dust. I brushed something away and it was just there,” she says.
Having visited Ireland the previous summer to take part in an archaeology course with the University of Galway, Ens made the move to Dublin this August to begin her master’s in archaeology at UCD. She attended a seminar series at the Royal Irish Academy during National Heritage Week, where she heard about the community dig in St Anne’s Park.
Archeologists Wayne Malone, James Kyle, Mick Mongey and Rory Blount at work in St Anne’s Park as part of the St Annes Park Community Archaeology Project. Photo: Bryan O’Brien / The Irish Times Last autumn, after seeing the dig in full swing and speaking to local historian Leo ‘George’ Devitt, he decided to build a model of the Guinness mansion. “I got card literally that night and just started to build room after room,” he recalls.
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