Young Archaelogists To Launch Book On Mega-Megaliths

Mega-Megaliths. The booklet charts the young archaeologists’ visits to important sites during 2010, such as the 5000 year-old Legananny Dolmen, the Giant’s Ring Passage Tomb and Newgrange Passage Tomb. A new book entitled ‘Tomb Travel’, by archaeologist Henry Welsh, will also be launched at the same event on Wednesday 9th March, by the Northern [caption id="attachment_20641" align="alignleft" width="400" caption="The Goward Portal Tomb is one of many megaliths in Northern Ireland visited by the Young Archaeologists Club."][/caption] Ireland Environment Agency. Henry will then be joining archaeologist Sam Moore and geologist Ian Meighan at the Museum on Friday 11th March, when they will be giving talks about Megaliths and their meanings in the morning. They will then take participants on a guided trip to Ballynoe stone circle after lunch. Tickets for this event are £15 and can be purchased in the Down County Museum. The new exhibition and children’s booklet have been funded by the PEACE III Programme managed by the Special EU Programmes Body and delivered by the North Down, Ards and Down Council cluster, who have supported translations for Polish families with the help of a special link with the National Archaeological Museum in Warsaw. Moving on 3,500 years to the archaeological legacy of St. Patrick, the Museum is also running a day trip around Early Christian Lecale by vintage bus on Saturday 12th March, when sites such as Saul, Struell Wells, Raholp, Kilclief, Ardtole, St John’s Point and Bright will be visited under the guidance of Museum Curator Mike King, with lunch at the Cuan in Strangford included. Tickets are £20 and can be purchased at the Down County Museum. For those interested in what a pilgrim would have seen in Rome in the Age of St Patrick, Mike will be giving a talk on this subject at 7.30pm on Tuesday 15th March, which is free of charge. For more details on any of these events please contact Down County Museum on 028 4461 5218.]]>