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Trip to
The Granary and Reginals
Tower – Oct 20th
‘06
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Today we went to the Granary
and Reginals Tower. There were two groups of fourteen,
Mr. Doran took one group and Mrs. Greene took the other. I was in Mr. Doran’s
group and we went to the Granary while the other group were in Reginalds Tower. We were looking at artifacts found
during the excavation of the new Waterford
by pass. We saw the stone that was used to make axes. We saw Oghem poles and
what the marks translate to. We saw Bann flakes and we learned that
archaeologists took four hours to dust and clean each Bann flake.
In Reginalds
Tower we saw early Waterford
when the Viking Regnall came and built Reginalds Tower
out of wood. There was a display of Norman Waterford with the stone version
of Reginalds Tower. There were still some wooden
fences with stone gateways. We went into the jail cell where prisoners were
kept. They only had an opening for light. We went up the stumble stairs and
saw where they shot arrows at enemies and where they fired the cannon. We
went further up the stumble stairs and saw the toilet they used and also the fireplace.
We watched a D.V.D. on three towers around Waterford and then went back to school. I
enjoyed Friday and preferred our visit to the Granary.
Report written by Conor Browne
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