EXPEDITION TO IRELAND TO EXCAVATE FOR VIKING SHIP

Bronze-age cairns, Viking ship tombs,and prehistoric lake-dwellings will be excavated this summer by Dr. H. O'N. Hencken, assistant curator of European Archaeology, Hallam J. Movius, Jr. '30, W. E. Forbes '34, and Amery Goddard sp. The work will be done by the second Harvard University archeological expedition to the Irish Free State, a part of the five-year research under the direction of A. M. Tozzer '00, professor of Anthropology.

A mound on Ards Peninsula, Ireland, said to contain a Viking ship burial, a large "crannog," or lake-dwelling, bronze-age cairns in Galway county, and an iron-age village way county, and an iron-age village in Wicklow county will be excavated by Hencken and his associates. A sociological study of county Clare will be carried on under the management of W. L. Warner, assistant professor of Social Anthropology,