Viking Dublin: The Wood Quay Excavations

by Pat Wallace

In Dublin, the Wood Quay-Fishamble Street archaeological excavations were a constant media story throughout the 1970s and 1980s, when the threat of official destruction brought thousands of protestors into the streets. Although this highly-publicized protest failed to "Save Wood Quay," it did force the most extensive urban excavations ever undertaken in Europe that yielded more unprecedented data about town layout in Dublin 1,000 years ago than about...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0716533146
• ISBN13: 9780716533146
• Release Date: January 2016
• Publisher: Irish Academic Press
• Length: 594 Pages
• Weight: 5.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 8.5" x 11.7"