C O N F E R E N C E Cambrian Archaeological Association in collaboration with Cardiff University DARGANFOD – DISCOVERY 2025 A celebration of new archaeological research in Wales Saturday 8th March 2025 To be held online (Zoom) Join us for a day dedicated to fascinating recent work on the archaeology of Wales and Read more about Darganfod – Discovery Conference, Saturday 8th March 2025[…]
Summer Meeting: Sunday 29th June – Friday 4th July, 2025 The Historic Gardens of North Wales. More details and information about booking will be posted shortly.
Autumn Meeting: September Friday 19 – Sunday 21. The Historic Pottery Industries of South Wales. The meeting will be based in Bridgend and as well as lectures on the topic ranging from mediaeval to modern will include visits to the historic but still working potteries at Ewenny and Nantgarw and to the fine ceramic and Read more about Autumn Meeting: Friday 19th – Sunday 21st September, 2025[…]
Dear Cambrians We are delighted to announce our 2024 Cambrian Christmas Lecture, which will take place online (Zoom) on Wednesday 11 December at 7 pm, and will be given by Michael Freeman. Michael will be talking about ‘Welsh costume’, as worn by women in Wales from the mid-18th to mid-20th centuries. It developed from a Read more about Christmas Lecture for 2024 – 7pm on 11th December[…]
Over an autumn weekend at the end of September a group of Cambrians explored a less well known corner of Wales. Staying in the centre of Wrexham in the Wynnstay Arms hotel we studiously avoided Wrexham football ground which is what the town seems to be best known for today. The group assembled on the Read more about Cambrians Wrexham Tour September 27th to 29th, 2024[…]
Gwilym Hughes The president of the Cambrian Archaeological Association for 2024-25 is Gwilym Hughes, Head of Cadw, Welsh Government. Brought up in Radyr and Creigiau, near Cardiff, he read archaeology at Southampton University, and then worked as a field archaeologist and heritage manager in Wales, northern Italy and Zimbabwe. His four years Zimbabwe included excavation Read more about Meet the President – Gwilym Hughes[…]
The Report of the 170th CAA Summer Meeting which was held between the 30th June and 5th July, 2024 in Hay on Wye can be downloaded below in PDF format. Click here to download Report of CAA Summer Meeting 2024 – Hay on Wye
The second tranche of Cambrian Archaeological Association Walks and Talks will take place in August and September when we will be guiding walks in different areas of Wales, exploring a variety of historic landscapes dating from prehistory to early modern. These are free of charge and open to all. Come and join us by booking Read more about Walks and Talks 2024 – Part Two: August to October[…]
Wednesday 7 August, 4:30pm, Societies Pavilion on the Maes. It may be difficult to appreciate that the world’s finest porcelain was created in the locality of the National Eisteddfod, but that is a fact… come and hear how the Nantgarw China Works was founded by William Billingsley and how his feat was re-created 200 years Read more about National Eisteddfod Cambrians Lecture: Wednesday 7 August, 4:30pm[…]
This year, our Autumn Meeting will be in the lovely town of Wrexham in North Wales. We will be staying at the Wynnstay Arms in central Wrexham and ideally we should all arrive by lunchtime as the afternoon activities will start 1.30pm. Friday 27th pm The afternoon will start with a tour of the fantastic Read more about Cambrians Autumn Meeting – Wrexham, 27 to 29 September, 2024[…]