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...been an extremely malodorous fish-drying centre. This was excavated last season by a Harvard group under Hallam Leonard Movius Jr. About this time the Irish were learning from contact with the Mediterranean civilizations to build huge mausoleums. In County Sligo another Harvard party under Hugh O'Neill Hencken unearthed a mound of stone 180 ft. long, covering five burial chambers and enclosing a sort of courtyard where funerals were probably held. The dead were cremated and buried with pottery bowls and stone tools...
...purchase by Peabody Museum of an extremely valuable collection of ornaments and instruments known as the Mecklenburg Collection was announced yesterday by Hugh O. Hencken, curator of the Museum. The price paid for the collection although not divulged by the authorities, is estimated...
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...
...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...
...Creighton, Chairman, Miss Joan Sullivan; J. W. Belser, Miss Lamora Gleason; D. G. Casto, Miss Edna Applebee; J. H. Gebelein, Miss Polly Smith; C. W. Gillies, Miss Marjorie Sullivan; Francis Millet, Miss Debora Wood; G. S. Rich, Miss Claudia Hencken; A. E. Simonson, Miss Jane Murray; J. V. D. Southworth, Miss Martha Collins; Harold Wagar, Miss Barbara Backus; C. P. Morehouse, Miss Sally Hardeastle; Mr. Henry Kass, Miss A. F. Merian...