A new season of excavations has just begun at Brusselstown Ring hillfort, Co. Wicklow, Ireland, where members of the Navan Research Group are investigating a curious oval feature, externally measuring 12 x 14 m, which is atypically large for a prehistoric roundhouse. #archaeology

@NavanResearch.bsky.social Hot off the press from the Navan Research Group: “Brusselstown Ring: a nucleated settlement agglomeration in prehistoric Ireland”— just published in the April 2026 issue of Antiquity. #Archaeology #PrehistoricIreland #AntiquityJournal #BrusselstownRing

@NavanResearch.bsky.social New open-access article out now! Dirk Brandherm (Navan Research Group) & Carlo Bottaini present new chemical analyses of 105 Irish Bronze Age artefacts, revealing long-term continuity in metalworking with some intriguing variations. Read here: muse.jhu.edu/issue/47584

@NavanResearch.bsky.social We’re pleased to share a new open-access publication by members of the Navan Research Group: "The Bishopsland hoard: a reassessment" (Boutoille & Brandherm 2025). Read the full article here: doi.org/10.62526/Y76...

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