We will be emailing all those who chose the Backer’s naming rights to #dogs and #horses this Sunday, with guidelines to the names ye will be thinking up. But just to get ye started, max.8 characters or less. Get your thinking caps on!!! #VikingDublinDogs & #VikingHorses

#AWOOOO!! A new Bite-sized Treat just dropped, from Rebecca Boyd about the #dogs and death... #VikingDublinDogs

https://www.vikingdublindogs.ie/post/dogs-in-death-the-valsgärde-dogs

#AWOOOO we feature in @IrishExaminer
newspaper online today … read all about our project, our team leader @Ruthfcarden was interviewed in a serious of Q&A. #VikingDublinDogs #doges #wolves #horses this is going to be a great, fun & EPIC project.

https://www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/outdoors/arid-41212453.html

#AWOOOO!! A New Bite-sized Treat has been dropped - See @PDufaigh
post on excavations and #dogs at #AungierStreet Dublin, Ireland. #VikingDublinDogs

https://www.vikingdublindogs.ie/post/stephen-st-aungier-st-excavations-17e0212

#AWOOOO a new Researcher Pack member has joined us, he collaborates with Ruth on her #IrishCaveBones projects but we welcome Patrick Randolph-Quinney to #VikingDublinDogs project to help Ruth with all of the bone shape/size analysis of the #dogs & #horses. Welcome to the Pack, Pat!

1/ This is my last day doing the socials for #VikingDublinDogs ( and what a week it's been!) So we are reaching the end of Phase 1 of crowdfunding and I thought I'd offer a bit of an overview of the equine side. The funds raised to date will be going for radiocarbon dates of dogs, the most important ones, as some may be earlier or later than Viking Ireland. So, here's a hint of Phase 2....trot on!

#AWOOOO We hear from our Guardian, Nala and her person Dermot Cosgrove, in today's new Bite-sized Treat. A fun day in Nala's life! #VikingDublinDogs

https://www.vikingdublindogs.ie/post/nala-s-our-guardian-typical-day

@VikingDublinDogs 2/2 These naming rights are fun way to get directly involved with our project and follow your dogs' on their journeys of discovery. Please help us on our last week of crowdfunding. We need 6 of these to fund 1 radiocarbon date, which we need badly. Please RT. #VikingDublinDogs

#AWOOOO!!! @StillJustRena will be posting this coming week from our account, bringing in horses into our horse-dog investigatoins amongst other goodies. Stay tuned. I'll (Ruth) be in/out during the week with a few posts. Enjoy your week & our last crowdfunder week. #VikingDublinDogs

First up, this week I’ve looked at law codes, sagas, tales, artwork, archaeology, and modern scholarship. What did I miss? And more importantly, what are YOU working on when it comes to early medieval animals? I'll retweet/signal boost your work. (2/2) #VikingDublinDogs

Another thread #VikingDublinDogs Mary Valante (and Hooch, whose Viking Dogs bandana is in the wash) back again, looking at some of what we know about dogs from Viking-Age urban environments, starting with Kaupang.

But in the sagas, guard dogs are mentioned most often. Sámr from Njals Saga is supposed to be an Irish doggo! See Rebecca Boyd’s #VikingDublinDogs Bite-sized Treat post on Sámr here: https://www.vikingdublindogs.ie/post/sámr-a-most-outstanding-dog

As uiu can see from Mary’s posts this week we know a little information about dogs in Viking-Age and Medieval Ireland and Britain, but lots more to find out using cutting edge scientific techniques& analysis. We are still running our Crowdfunder to help with costs https://www.vikingdublindogs.ie/category/all-products Or make a donation on our Welcome page Buy Me a Coffee near the end. All donations/support will go to radiocarbon dating. Thank you. Please retoot. #VikingDublinDogs & #horses

#AWOOOO Time for a early morning Bite-sized Treat from @DrRebeccaboyd
about Sámr, an Icelandic large, integillent #dog ... #VikingDublinDogs https://www.vikingdublindogs.ie/post/sámr-a-most-outstanding-dog

Dog #7, Chancery Lane, Dublin city, Ireland. On the River Poddle, excavated by Alan Hayden. A nice near complete large-type dog skull. #VikingDublinDogs #dogs #zooarchaeology - Ruth

Horse #3, Newtown, Co. Dublin, Ireland. A partial front part of the lower jaw with very worn incisor teeth and the canines are broken off. Just visible are the chop/cleaver impact marks between the two halves - removal of the tongue. #horse #vikingdublindogs

Sometimes all you get is a tooth of an animal from a particular area or context within an excavation. Like this canine tooth, Dog#6 Newtown, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Excavated by IAC Archaeology. But we can gain so much info even from one tooth - date, diet, origins etc. #VikingDogs #vikingdublindogs

Dog#4 out of the boxes, from Chancery Lane, Dublin City (adjacent to the Poddle). Excavated by Alan Hayden. Partial remains of a skull, lower jaw, humerus (front leg bone) and atlas, neck vertebra. #VikingDublinDogs #dogs

Detail of the teeth from large type Dog#3 from Newtown, Co. Dublin, Ireland. Note the worn teeth (dark patches of dentine where the enamel has worn off) from this adult dog. 2/2 #VikingDublinDogs #dogs

Newtown, Dog#3, a partial skull, ribs, some vertebrae, partial foreleg bones (scapulae, humerus, radius and ulna). This is a large type dog from this hinterland Dublin site. Perhaps a guard dog? 1/2 #VikingDublinDogs #dogs