Welcome to Scéilín – the Abarta Heritage Blog

Welcome to Scéilín – the Abarta Heritage Blog, where you can find the latest news, updates and travels of the Abarta team. We’d love to hear your thoughts, so please do get in touch by commenting on our posts. We hope that Scéilín will give you a look behind the scenes of Abarta, to show the kind of projects that we work on and the way we go about it. There will be individual sections for key themes and projects such as Adopt a Monument, the Hellfire Club Archaeological Project as well as sections about our travels and adventures and our latest news. We hope that you enjoy our blog!

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  • Excavations to reveal the story of the Hellfire Club, our mission was to help people to experience archaeology and learn more about this incredible site

    Hellfire Club Archaeological Project Week Four

    Hellfire Club Archaeological Project Diary Week Four Hellfire Club Archaeological Project: Week Four Update This year's dig at the Hellfire Club has finished, and we have made some really exciting discoveries. So now the excavation is complete the process of post-excavation analysis begins! The excavation was a fantastic [...]

  • Hellfire Club Artefacts

    Megalithic Art Discovered at the Hellfire Club

    Megalithic Art Discovered at the Hellfire Club Sitting partially exposed in the hollow of the strange mound behind the Hellfire Club, a dark lump of igneous rock served as a handy border to many bonfires over the centuries.  However, those who enjoyed the warmth of the fire [...]

  • Hellfire Club Archaeological Project Week Three

    Hellfire Club Archaeological Project Diary Week Three Things began to get really exciting in the third week of the Hellfire Club Archaeological Project.  The first trench has continued, with more flint and charcoal being discovered within a very clay-like layer near the base of the trench at the south [...]

  • Hellfire Club Dig

    Hellfire Club Archaeological Project Week Two

    Hellfire Club Archaeological Project Diary Week Two After the end of the Hellfire Club Archaeological Project Week Two, we are beginning to understand a bit more of the nature of the archaeology. In our first trench we've uncovered the remains of the stone cairn [...]

  • Hellfire Club Archaeological Project Slide for Homepage

    Hellfire Club Archaeological Project Week One

    Hellfire Club Archaeological Project Diary Week One Welcome to our site diary; read on to discover the latest findings from the Hellfire Club Archaeological Project Week One (Tuesday 04th October – Friday 07th October 2016). We are carrying out a small dig on what is believed to be a large [...]

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