UAS November 2025 Lecture

The November UAS lecture is titled ‘ Drumclay in the 9th Century: From Dates to Daily Life — Reconstructing an Early Medieval Community’ and will be given by Dr Marie-Therese Barrett.

This is a **free** hybrid lecture and will take place in-person in 0G.029 Elmwood/Geography Building, QUB as well as online (Zoom/YouTube).


As always, *free* hot beverages and biscuits will be served at 19.00 (feel free to bring your own mug - BYOM) before the lecture begins at 19.30.

Members will receive the Zoom link a few days before the lecture. Everyone else can watch the lecture on our YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/live/XkAIUSg-3PU?si=EC0sFzJlTA-sF3dM (please like and subscribe!)

Lecturer Bio: Marie-Therese Barrett is Senior Research Archaeologist and Dendrochronologist at IAC Archaeology. She holds a BA and MPhil in Archaeology from UCC and an MSc in Dating and Chronology from Queen’s University Belfast, where she also completed her PhD on Drumclay titled “Drumclay: a tree-ring dated narrative for an Irish crannog”. Her doctoral research focused on building an alder chronology with calendrical dates (anchored by a Miyake event). Her research interests include dendrochronology, wetland archaeology, and scientific dating methods, with a special emphasis on applying relative chronologies to understanding the narratives of individual sites.