Come and join us on our Walks and Talks Programme for 2025, free of charge, guided by experts who will lead you around a selection of walks in different areas of Wales, covering many different periods and types of historic and archaeological sites. Saturday 6th September 2025: Llanmelin Hillfort and Gray Hill Stone Circle, Read more about Walks and Talks Part Two 2025 : September to November[…]
Come and join us on our Walks and Talks Programme for 2025, free of charge, guided by experts who will lead you around a selection of walks in different areas of Wales, covering many different periods and types of historic and archaeological sites. A second tranche of walks will be published on the CAA website Read more about Walks and Talks Part One 2025 : May to August[…]
CAA Eisteddfod Lecture 16.30 Wednesday 6th August, 2025 (by Ann Parry Owen). Join us for our annual Welsh-language lecture on the Maes at Wrexham on the fascinating word-lists created in 1632͏-3 by the manuscript copier John Jones of Gellilyfdy, Flintshire, whilst he was incarcerated as a debtor in the Fleet Prison, London.
The Historic Pottery Industries of South Wales This year our theme is the historic pottery and porcelain industries of south Wales and will include visits to museums and working potteries. Join us and see some wonderful collections! Like the summer meeting, this year’s autumn meeting will have a theme, in this case the ceramics Read more about Autumn Meeting: Friday 19th – Sunday 21st September, 2025[…]
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[…]
Huw Pryce Our President-elect for 2025–26 is Huw Pryce, Emeritus Professor of Welsh History, Bangor University. Born in Essex and brought up in Cardiff, he read history at Jesus College, Oxford, where he went on to undertake doctoral research, writing a thesis on the relationship between medieval Welsh law and the Church. He joined the Read more about Meet the President[…]