Hey little schoolgirl

  _Schoolgirl finds Bronze Age tool in playground_

   Second class pupil at St Brigid's National School
   in Greystones (co. Wicklow, Ireland), Laoise
   Mangan (9), in the summer months of last year,
   she discovered an odd looking stone on the ground
   while walking in the school yard. She brought the
   stone into her then teacher, Mr Martin Dodd, who,
   luckily, just happened to have a degree in
   Archaeology. Mr Dodd forwarded it to an
   acquaintance of his, Dr Muiris O'Sullivan, at the
   Department of Archaeology in U.C.D.
   To Laoise's surprise, the school received word
   shortly before Christmas that the stone dated from
   the late Neolithic or early Bronze Age (2000 BCE),
   and was most probably used as a tool for scraping
   meat from animal hides.

Laoise is reportedly thrilled with her find, which
has now been dubbed, 'Laoise's special stone' by
teachers at St Brigid's. "Can you imagine it? It
was so lucky. If she had brought it in to any other
teacher they probably would have just thrown it
away," said Mary Beausang, a teacher at St.
Brigid's. "Now we have dozens of pupils bringing stones in
from the yard to Mr Dodd for examination...and
we will always check with him before we ask
them to put them back in the yard!" she said.

Source: Bray People (19 January 2006)
via Archaeo News 21 January 2006
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Isn't that wonderfull? A whole school at once
devoted to archaeology.

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