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 members nearer the time. The Minutes of the 2023 AGM, the Agenda for 2024 and the 2023 Trustees Annual Report and Accounts can be viewed Read more about Annual General Meeting – 7.30 pm, Thursday 10th October 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 annual highlights, and in addition to this we have organised a programme of Walks and Talks in various locations around Wales. We will also be Read more about Programme for 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. These are free of charge and open to all. Come and join us by booking on the walks detailed below. Another three walks in September Read more about Walks and Talks 2024 Part One: June to August, 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 churches and 18th century architecture and a flour mill. Hay on Wye is a small Welsh market town, very much a border settlement. It stands Read more about Summer Meeting, Hay-on-Wye, 30 June to 5 July, 2024[…]
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 Leader: Rachel Swallow This walk and talk focuses on Rachel’s multidisciplinary research in Gwynedd and the ground-breaking research she presented at a conference held as Read more about Summer/Autumn Walks and Talks 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 in Pabell y Cymdeithasau 2 on the subject of the power of the past in mediaeval Wales… clearly we are not alone today in looking Read more about CAA Annual Eisteddfod Lecture, 9 August 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 Jazz Festival and Brecon Baroque. A strategically located Norman foundation, it still retains the key features of a ‘castle borough’, with substantial parts of the Read more about Autumn Meeting, Brecon, 22nd – 24th September, 2023[…]
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 members nearer the time. The Minutes of the 2022 AGM, the Agenda for 2023 and the 2023 Trustees Annual Report and Accounts can be seen Read more about Annual General Meeting 2023 12th October 7.30 pm (via Zoom)[…]
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 of the talks can be found on the conference page.
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[…]