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Cambrians’ Christmas Lecture 2025
The Druids’ Sacrifice: Discovering Iron Age Wales on Military Land By Richard Osgood (Senior Archaeologist, Defence Infrastructure Organisation) Online via Zoom: Thursday 4th December at 7.00 pm This is…
Annual General Meeting – 7.30 pm, Thursday 13th November 2025
The 172nd Annual General Meeting of The Cambrian Archaeological Association/Cymdeithas Hynafiaethau Cymru will be held via Zoom at 7.30 pm, Thursday 13 November 2025. Joining details will be emailed…
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…
Walks and Talks Part One 2025 : May to August
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…
National Eisteddfod Lecture: 6th August, 2025 – 4.30pm
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…
Summer Meeting: Sunday 29th June – Friday 4th July, 2025
The Historic Gardens of North Wales This week of tours around NW Wales will be based at the University Halls in Bangor (accessible by train) which will supply full board…
Autumn Meeting: Friday 19th – Sunday 21st September, 2025
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…
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…
Meet the President – Gwilym Hughes
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…
Report of CAA Summer Meeting, 2024 – Hay on Wye
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….
Programme for 2024
We are pleased to share that 2024 sees a continuation of the Association’s active programme of events and meetings. Our Summer (Hay on Wye) and Autumn (Wrexham) meetings are two…
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…
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 2023 talks now available to view
A selection of talks from our very successful April 2023 Darganfod conference are now available to view on our YouTube channel, and can be accessed from our Talks page. Abstracts…
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…
Brecon Autumn Meeting, Sept 2023 – new arrangements
New arrangements for our Autumn Meeting at Brecon in September 2023 are now in place. The revised programme can be viewed in the amended version of the newsletter here….
Changes to Autumn Meeting in Brecon – September 2023
Autumn Weekend Brecon, Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th September We have just found out that our proposed main venue, the Castle Hotel, Brecon, is no longer suitable as our base…
GT Clark Prize 2022
Every five years, the Association awards a series of prizes, named after the distinguished Welsh antiquary G.T. Clark, for contributions to the study of the history and antiquities of Wales…
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 …
Cambrian Archaeological Association Programme 2022
The Association’s programme for 2022 has two major events, our Summer and Autumn meetings, as well as a series of Walks and Talks throughout Wales, and lectures at the National…
Cambrian Archaeological Association: Walks and Talks, 2021
This year, the Cambrians decided to try out a new programme for our members. Given all the uncertainties of meeting indoors as the pandemic continued to affect all our activities,…
Eurwyn Wiliam: The study of vernacular architecture in Wales (Presidential Address 2021)
Dr Wiliam worked as Assistant Keeper, Director and Deputy-Director at Amgueddfa Cymru-National Museum of Wales, and is an authority on the vernacular buildings of Wales. He has published extensively…
Illustrating the Past in Wales: A Celebration of 175 Years of Archaeologia Cambrensis 1846-2021
An attractive and informative new booklet celebrates 175 years of the Cambrian Archaeological Association, charting the development of archaeological illustration and recording through the ages. The new booklet Illustrating the…
The Cambrian Archaeological Association is 175 years old!
Chairman of Trustees, Sian Rees, introduces this year of celebration with an invitation to read the views of members and friends about our Association and its work. 2021 succeeds…
Cambrians AGM via Zoom on Thursday 14th October 2021 at 7.30pm
Letter from Heather James, General Secretary Dear Fellow Cambrians, Here is the notice of the forthcoming 2021 AGM which will be held via Zoom on Thursday 14th October at…
ARCHAEOLOGICAL WALKS, SUMMER 2021
With uncertainty still prevailing about social gatherings through the summer, we propose a series of Covid-proof walks and talks to be offered by Trustees in July, August and September. These…
Message from Frances Lynch Llewellyn
Frances Lynch Llewellyn has sent a message about our Annual Newsletter. She says: You will have noticed that the Cambrians’ Newsletter has not yet dropped on your doorstep, but it…
Happy New Year from the Cambrian Archaeological Association!
Happy New Year from the Cambrian Archaeological Association! We are delighted to announce that 2021 marks our very special 175th anniversary. We also have a new logo for the year….
Clwyd Churches – Three Tours
This has been put together by our programme Secretary Frances Lynch Llewellyn from her Programme Booklet for the 2016 Summer Meeting in the Vale of Clwyd to highlight an excellent…