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Author Archives: sarthure
Culchie Day in the big city
Today is 8 December. It’s a holy day of obligation, the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, and when I was a child it was a day off school. Traditionally, this was the day that the country people went to Dublin … Continue reading
Posted in Around the world, Folk traditions, Ireland, Irishness
Tagged Christmas, Culchie Christmas Shopping Day, Culchie Day, Dublin, jackeens, Santa Claus, Santy, Switzers
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Tools of the archaeology trade
These days, I’m deep in the results from the Baker’s Flat excavations of 2016 and 2017, analysing what we found as part of the ‘writing up’ of my PhD. As we excavated, the work was captured in words, photos, total … Continue reading
Posted in Baker's Flat, Excavation, Field work, Kapunda, South Australia
Tagged archaeology, Baker's Flat, excavation, fieldwork, sieving, tools
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Turnip carving? It must be Halloween
I’ve written before about Halloween, citing a spine-tingling poem and stories of children stolen by the good people. I loved this time as a child, that feeling of uncertainty, that strange things could happen on this one night when the … Continue reading
A tale of two buttons and some supernatural events
I’ve been cataloguing buttons from Baker’s Flat. The ones in the picture below are known as trouser buttons (suspender buttons if you’re in the US) and were used mainly on work trousers and shirts. These four hole, sew through buttons … Continue reading
Fizzy drinks, the Codd patent bottle and some experimental archaeology
When aerated mineral water drinks were first manufactured way back in the eighteenth century, they were stored in stoneware bottles. But the gas often escaped, the fizz disappeared and the drinks became flat. When glass bottles were used, a different … Continue reading
Posted in Material culture, Research, hmmm, South Australia
Tagged australia, Codd bottles, fizzy drinks, glass, Material culture
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