Grants awarded November 2019
£1700 to Peter Crew for further conservation and interpretation work at Dolgun Blast Furnace,
Dolgellau.
£1000 to Madeleine Gray for reformatting her database of all medieval tomb effigies in Wales.
£1500 to Michael Parker-Pearson for further excavation at Waun Mawn stone circle, Preseli.
£1000 to Seren Griffith for osteological analysis of Bronze Age cremated remains from the Newall
excavation of Bryn Celli Bach, Anglesey.
£2134 to Adelle Bricking, for analysis of human remains from older excavations at Dinorben and
RAF St Athan, part of the Life and Death in Iron Age Wales project.
Research Grants awarded in November 2018
£485 to Peter Crew for conservation, survey and research at Dolgun Blast Furnace. Dolgellau.
£1500 to Margaret Dunn,towards dendrochronological dating and building recording for the Discovering Old Welsh Houses in NE Wales project.
£2003 to Katie Hemer, for the Ynys Enlli Revisited project – full analysis of early medieval human skeletal remains excavated at Ty Newydd, prior to their reburial by the Bardsey Island Trust.
£1215 to James Meek and Neil Ludlow for radio-carbon dating and assessment of pottery recovered in recent excavations at Pembroke Castle.
£1600 to Tim Mighall for 6 radiocarbon dates for the project ‘Placing Metal Mining and Smelting in to its environmental context: were there hotspots of woodland destruction?’ Using samples already analysed for pollen from the environs of the early mines at Copa Hill, excavated by the Early Mining Research Group.
£500 to Gary Robinson and Joanna Brück for exploratory archaeological excavations and survey at Frongoch WWI Internment Camp.
£1980 to Rhiannon Stevens – ‘Seeking Neanderthals’ – using Zooarchaeology Mass Spectometry on human bone samples from older excavations at Coygan Cave, Carmarthenshire.
Research Grants Awarded in 2016
An award of £1890 was made to William Britnell for obtaining AMS dates from cereal remains from the Gwernvale chambered tomb. Also for obtaining radiocarbon dates, £1680 was awarded to Dr Oliver Davis of the Caer Heritage Dating project. This project on a neglected hillfort in a suburb of Cardiff has had strong local community involvement. Rhiannon Philp was awarded £1000 to obtain dates on possible Mesolithic footprints revealed in intertidal deposits at Port Eynon, Gower.
Professor Gary Lock was awarded £700 towards excavation costs at the hillfort of Moel-y-Gaer Bodfari, a long-running excavation supported by the CAA for some years. Katharina Moeller, Bangor University, was awarded £500 towards excavation costs at the Meillionydd Project on the Llyn peninsula.
Neil Ludlow was awarded £1350 towards the costs of obtaining transcriptions and translations of little known documents relating to Pembroke Castle.