Edward Pollard
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Edward Pollard
@edwardpollard.bsky.social
Coastal and Maritime Archaeologist
Hut site and cairns in the eroding sand dunes on the Doorin Point survey. @cormacduffy.bsky.social @ria.ie @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #RIAgrants funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social
August 20, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Eroding shell middens recorded surveying around Doorin Point, Donegal. @cormacduffy.bsky.social @ria.ie @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #RIAgrants funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social
August 19, 2025 at 7:11 AM
Erosion cut through a stream making a new waterfall with the original now dry valley on the townland boundary seen further south. Doorin Point in Donegal @cormacduffy.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #RIAgrants funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social @ria.ie @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social
August 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Traces of a cart track running along the intertidal zone was recorded on the Doorin Point survey, Donegal @cormacduffy.bsky.social This project is grant aided by #Riagrants @ria.ie funded by @nationalmons.bsky.social @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social
August 17, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Checking out the erratics used as land marks, place names, fossils and rock formations on the foreshore around Doorin Point promontory fort in Donegal @cormacduffy.bsky.social #Riagrants @ria.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social
August 16, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Good start finding submerged forests and old landing places. Looking forward to going around the promontory fort on Doorin Point when continue in a couple of weeks #RIAgrants @ria.ie @nationalmons.bsky.social
July 28, 2025 at 4:06 PM
Pleased for having opportunity to talk on the ruins of Clonmines in Co. Wexford yesterday at the Royal Irish Academy seminar on Water, towns and topography. Glad to be able to discuss silting, erosion and traversing the estuary #CHERISHlegacy @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social @heritagecouncil.ie‬‬
May 29, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Glad to talk on Rosslare Fort today in Belfast at the Irish Post Medieval Archaeology Group conference. It is the 100th anniversary of the abandonment of Rosslare Fort in Wexford this year after the storm on Christmas Eve 1924 turned it into an island #CHERISHlegacy @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social
February 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
Weekend in Edinburgh for the rugby and return via Cramond Island world war defences repurposed for social commentary through graffiti
February 3, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Turnberry Castle in Ayrshire, where Robert the Bruce was born, looks to be built on a promontory fort with ditch landward, landing places either side, lighthouse and view of Ailsa Craig
January 31, 2025 at 6:21 PM