Forthcoming Events
Christmas Lecture for 2024 – 7pm on 11th December
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…
Darganfod – Discovery: Saturday March 8, 2025
A celebration of new archaeological research in Wales. Saturday March 8, 2025
Summer Meeting: Sunday 29th June – Friday 4th July, 2025
Summer Meeting: Sunday 29th June – Friday 4th July, 2025 The Historic Gardens of North Wales.
Autumn Meeting: Friday 19th – Sunday 21st September, 2025
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…
Past Events
Cambrians Wrexham Tour September 27th to 29th, 2024
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…
Walks and Talks 2024 – Part Two: August to October
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…
National Eisteddfod Cambrians Lecture: Wednesday 7 August, 4:30pm
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…
Cambrians Autumn Meeting – Wrexham, 27 to 29 September, 2024
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…
Annual General Meeting – 7.30 pm, Thursday 10th October 2024
The 171st Annual General Meeting of The Cambrian Archaeological Association/Cymdeithas Hynafiaethau Cymru will be held via Zoom at 7.30 pm, Thursday 10 October 2024. Joining details will be emailed to…
Walks and Talks 2024 Part One: June to August, 2024
In June, July and August the Cambrians will be guiding four walks in different areas of Wales, exploring a variety of historic landscapes dating from early prehistory to early modern….
Summer Meeting, Hay-on-Wye, 30 June to 5 July, 2024
Our summer meeting, based in and around the lovely town of Hay on Wye, comprises a varied programme of site visits and lectures from Neolithic tombs to medieval castles and…
Summer/Autumn Walks and Talks 2023
Here is the second tranche of walks and talks organised for 2023. Saturday, 23 September 2023. 2pm (note change of date) Roman and Medieval Caernarfon, N W Wales…
CAA Annual Eisteddfod Lecture, 9 August 2023
Our foremost historian of the Middle Ages, Professor Huw Pryce, will deliver the Cambrian Archaeological Association’s annual lecture at the National Eisteddfod in Boduan at 4.30 on Wednesday 9 August…
Autumn Meeting, Brecon, 22nd – 24th September, 2023
Brecon is one of Wales’s most interesting and attractive county towns, best known today as the Gateway to the Brecon Beacons National Park and for its festivals, notably the Brecon…
Annual General Meeting 2023 12th October 7.30 pm (via Zoom)
The 170th Annual General Meeting of the Cambrian Archaeological Association will be held via Zoom at 7.30 pm, Thursday 12 October 2023. Joining details will be circulated by email to…
Darganfod – Discovery Conference, Saturday 1st April 2023
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…
Annual General Meeting 2022, 13 October 7:30 pm
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…
AUTUMN MEETING COWBRIDGE, VALE OF GLAMORGAN 12th-14th SEPTEMBER 2022
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…
WALKS AND TALKS PROGRAMME, PART II, SUMMER / AUTUMN
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 …
CAA Annual National Eisteddfod Lecture
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…
WALKS AND TALKS PROGRAMME 2022 – SUMMER UPDATE
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…
WALKS AND TALKS PROGRAMME 2022
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…
SUMMER MEETING IN THE RIBBLE VALLEY, LANCASHIRE JULY 4TH– 9TH 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…
CAMBRIAN CHRISTMAS LECTURE 2021. ADAM GWILT: THE PEMBROKESHIRE CHARIOT BURIAL PROJECT. Online talk, Wednesday 15th December at 7.30pm
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…
AUTUMN MEETING 2021 LLANGOLLEN
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…
CAMBRIAN SUMMER MEETING 2021 IN LINCOLN
Sunday 4th – Friday 10th July 2021 Last year this meeting was a victim of Covid and, at the time of writing, it is still not clear that it will be…
Darganfod – Discovery Conference – Saturday 10th April 2021
CONFERENCE Cambrian Archaeological Association in association with Cardiff University DARGANFOD – DISCOVERY: a celebration of new archaeological research in Wales Saturday 10th April 2021 To be held online (Zoom) Join…
CAMBRIAN SUMMER MEETING 2020 IN LINCOLN Saturday 4th – Saturday 11th July
POSTPONED UNTIL 2021 This year we are visiting the City of Lincoln and Lincolnshire for a full week, under the guidance of Nick and Eva Moore. Many will know them…