Participants in the Society for Medieval Archaeology Students’ Colloquium held at Queen’s University Belfast visited Down County Museum on their field trip on Saturday.
The group visited the newly conserved Downpatrick High Cross and the Early Christian, Viking and medieval collections in the museum’s ‘Down Through Time‘ exhibition, before being shown the sites of St Patrick’s Grave and the 1980’s excavations on the Hill of Down by Nick Brannon.
Mike King showed the group the three surviving fragments of the late eighth century St Patrick’s Cross in the entrance of Down Cathedral, having given a keynote lecture to the conference on the High Crosses of Down on Thursday evening.
The participants came from 13 different European countries, including France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, Romania, Slovenia and Poland.
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The international group of archaeologists visit St Patrick’s Grave.[/caption]
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An international colloqium of archaeology students at Down County Museum at their annual conference.[/caption]
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