The Historian
The Archaeologist
Early Christian Ireland
100

Someone who is a student of history.

What is a historian?

100

Digging up the ground to find evidence left by people in the past.

What is excavation?

100

A free-standing stone cross, usually carved with Biblical stories.

What is a high cross?

200

The study of the past.

What is history?

200
A photograph taken from an elevated position that can reveal dig sites.

What is an aerial photograph?

200

A place where manuscripts are made.

What is a scriptorium?

300

A source from the time.

What is a primary source?

300
A tool used by an archaeologist to remove topsoil.

What is a digger?

300

A place where monks would hide in case of Viking attacks.

What is a round tower?

400

A source from after the time.

What is a secondary source?

400
A tool used to sift soil and find small artefacts.

What is a sieve?

400

A person who worships many gods, usually revolving around nature.

What is a pagan?

500
Checking more than one source to ensure accuracy.

What is crosschecking?

500

A radioactive isotope with a half-life over 5,730 years.

What is Carbon-14?

500

Most famous manuscript in Ireland, currently held in Trinity College.

What is the Book of Kells?

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