Flicking through my photographic archive of generally forgettable snaps I came across a batch from my Masters fieldwork on Lambay Island, off the coast of Dublin. I spent a week on the Island surveying the flint resources on its beaches for my thesis and along the way got to visit the Lutyens-designed castle (no photos unfortunately!) and catch a glimpse of some of the wildlife.  

Lambay is home to lots of wild birds, rabbits, deer, seals and, a little unexpectedly, a flock? of wallabies. These furry creatures are surprisingly difficult to spot despite the fact they are clearly a little out of place on an Irish off-shore island. 

I had to wait until my last day of fieldwork to spot them and only managed to get one shot 

before they hopped it. You can see the shot above and a close up to the right. 

Obviously this post hasn't been strictly archaeological thus far so I've attached a few more-or-less archaeo/landscapy shots from my Lambay trip. For the record my hair has subsequently been shorn and I'm an awful lot less scruffy now. Most of the time anyhow..

My work on Lambay was published with Gabriel Cooney this year  in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 

My masters thesis (available here) has finally been published in article form in the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Section C, almost five years after I finished it. The paper was co-written with Prof. Gabriel Cooney and is available to download on the new-look Royal Irish Academy website here or on my personal site here. 

I've also had two smaller publications come out recently including a review for the Irish Museums Association Newsletter and a contribution to a lithics report written by Dr. Graeme Warren on stone tools from a Mesolithic site in Scotland. 

Full references are below and you can find (and usually download) my other publications here. 

• Dolan, B. and Cooney, G. 2010 Lambay lithics: the analysis of two surface collections from Lambay, Co. Dublin, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 110C, 1-33.
• Dolan, B. 2009 Report on the Annual lecture of the Irish Museums Association. Irish Museums Association Newsletter 56, 9-10.
• Warren, G. with Dolan, B. 2009 Stone Tools in Murray, H. K., Murray, J. C. and Fraser, S. M. (eds) A tale of the Unknown Unknowns: A Mesolithic Pit Alignment and a Neolithic Timber Hall at Warren Field, Crathes, Aberdeenshire. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 97-107.