CONFERENCE Cambrian Archaeological Association in collaboration with Cardiff University DARGANFOD – DISCOVERY 2023: a celebration of new archaeological research in Wales Saturday 1st April 2023, 9.30 – 4.30 To be held online (Zoom) Click here to download the programme and abstracts as a PDF Join us for a day dedicated to fascinating Read more about Darganfod – Discovery Conference, Saturday 1st April 2023[…]
The 169th Annual General Meeting of the Cambrian Archaeological Association will be held via Zoom at 7.30 pm, Thursday 13 October 2022. Joining details will be circulated by email to members nearer the time. The Minutes of the 2021 AGM, the Agenda for 2022 and the 2022 Trustees Annual Report and Accounts can be Read more about Annual General Meeting 2022, 13 October 7:30 pm[…]
12 – 14 September (Note, this is a Monday – Wednesday meeting) The Bear Hotel, 63 High Street, Cowbridge, Vale of Glamorgan, CF71 7AF 01446 774814 The theme of this meeting is a study of the early medieval monasteries and the historic houses of the Vale of Glamorgan. We are based at Cowbridge, founded in Read more about AUTUMN MEETING COWBRIDGE, VALE OF GLAMORGAN 12th-14th SEPTEMBER 2022[…]
Our Walks and Talks Programme continues in the second half of the year, after our earlier outings to stone circles and a Roman camp in Carmarthenshire, medieval hamlets in north Pembrokeshire, stone circles in Gwynedd and a hillfort and industrial landscape in Flintshire …
The former National Librarian and author of Wales In 100 Objects Andrew Green reflects on his experience and aspirations as Chairman of the Strata Florida Trust in the Cambrian Archaeological Association’s Annual National Eisteddfod lecture in Pabell y Cymdeithasau 2 on the Tregaron field at 4.30pm on Wednesday 3 August.
Saturday 6th August pm Moorland Walk in the Western Brecon Beacons: Arosfa Garreg Roman marching camp and ruined ‘longhouses’. Leader Heather James Meet at the car park at ‘Pont ar Wysg’ (SN 819269) at the junction of the forestry and open moorland on the minor road from Trecastle (Brecs.) to Twynllanan (Carms). We will then Read more about WALKS AND TALKS PROGRAMME 2022 – SUMMER UPDATE[…]
The CAA’s 2022 programme of Walks and Talks begins in March with a moorland walk in the Western Brecon Beacons led by our Hon Secretary Heather James. Details of this and of other walks in April and May are given below; further walks will be added soon. These walks must be pre-booked with the organiser Read more about WALKS AND TALKS PROGRAMME 2022[…]
Meeting full. Please contact Frances (flynchllewellyn@gmail.com) if you want to be added to a waiting list. The Ribble Valley from Preston to Burnley may bring to mind an image of mills and smoking chimneys, of clogs and cobbles and four-loom weavers, of grabbing industrialists and downtrodden workers, but, like the South Wales valleys, there is Read more about SUMMER MEETING IN THE RIBBLE VALLEY, LANCASHIRE JULY 4TH– 9TH 2022[…]
Adam Gwilt of Amgueddfa Cymru – National Museum of Wales will summarise the main findings concerning the discovery of a unique Iron Age chariot burial in Pembrokeshire in 2018, now the subject of a major ongoing heritage partnership in Wales. Starting with the find of a lifetime made by metal-detectorist Mike Smith and reported as Read more about CAMBRIAN CHRISTMAS LECTURE 2021. ADAM GWILT: THE PEMBROKESHIRE CHARIOT BURIAL PROJECT. Online talk, Wednesday 15th December at 7.30pm[…]
Celebrating 175 years of illustrating Wales’s past in the pages of Archaeologia Cambrensis Llangollen, 22nd – 24th October. From its foundation in 1846 the Cambrian Archaeological Association has published a Journal in which illustration of antiquities by means of accurate drawings and measured plans were promoted as an essential part of record and analysis. A Read more about AUTUMN MEETING 2021 LLANGOLLEN[…]