permitted to use pickaxes. Instead, the digging was done with trowels. Bersu and his wife continued living and excavating on the Isle of Man after the end of World War II until 1947. Later years When the war ended Bersu was offered the Chair of the Royal Irish Academy in Dublin and remained there until 1950 when he returned to Germany. Taking up his former post at the Institute he continued his work until retiring in 1956. Bersu excavated at the settlement of Green Craig, Creich, Fife in 1947. Bersu died suddenly while attending a meeting of the German Academy of Sciences in Megdeburg. References External links Canmore at Historic Environment Scotland 1889 births 1964 deaths People from Jawor People from the Province of Silesia 20th-century German archaeologists Commanders Crosses of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Prehistorians People interned in the Isle of Man during World War II Members of the German Academy of Sciences at Berlin Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy