Presentations from Darganfod-Discovery 2021 – a day dedicated to fascinating recent work on the archaeology of Wales and the Marches, held in conjunction with Cardiff University on 10th April 2021. This online conference is the first of a new series that showcases work supported by the Cambrian Archaeological Association Research Fund as well as providing an opportunity for early career academic and independent researchers to present research on Wales and the Marches. Speakers (in on-the-day order): Prof Mike Parker Pearson, Prof Gary Lock, Eirini Konstantinidi, Adelle Bricking, Dr Oliver Davis (with Prof Niall Sharples), Dr Toby Driver (with Dr Jeffrey L. Davies), Dr Andy Seaman, Dr Alan Lane, Dr Rhiannon Comeau, Dr Alice Forward, Dr Rachel Swallow. Poster presenters: Tiffany Treadway, Andrew Reynolds, Meredith Hood, Chris Griffiths, Ciara Butler, Alexandra Evans and (not shown on YouTube) Sarah Saunderson.
Darganfod-Discovery 2021: Prof Mike Parker Pearson
Prof Mike Parker Pearson of UCL Institute of Archaeology, on ‘The origins of Stonehenge: the bluestones and Preseli’. (CAA Research Fund project)
Darganfod-Discovery 2021: Prof Gary Lock
Prof Gary Lock of Kellogg College, Oxford, on ‘Moel y Gaer, Bodfari, a small hillfort in the Clwydians, Denbighshire’. (CAA Research Fund project)
Darganfod-Discovery 2021: Eirini Konstantinidi
Eirini Konstantinidi, PhD researcher at Cardiff University, on ‘If the dead could talk: a taphonomic approach to Neolithic mortuary treatment in the caves of Wales’.
Darganfod-Discovery 2021: Adelle Bricking
Adelle Bricking, PhD researcher at Cardiff University, on ‘Life and death in Iron Age Wales: preliminary results from histological and stable isotope analysis from Dinorben and RAF St Athan’. (CAA Research Fund project)
Darganfod-Discovery 2021: Dr Oliver Davis (with Prof Niall Sharples)
Dr Oliver Davis of Cardiff University (in conjunction with Prof Niall Sharples) on ‘Excavations at Caerau Hillfort, Cardiff, 2012-19: from the Neolithic to the Normans’. (CAA Research Fund project)
Darganfod-Discovery 2021: Dr Toby Driver (with Dr Jeffrey L. Davies)
Dr Toby Driver of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales on ‘The Romano-British villa at Abermagwr, Ceredigion: rarity and innovation at the most remote Roman villa in Wales’. (CAA Research Fund project)
Darganfod-Discovery 2021: Dr Andy Seaman
Dr Andy Seaman of Canterbury Christ Church University on ‘Hillforts and power in post-Roman Wales: a GIS-enabled analysis of Dinas Powys’. (CAA Research Fund project)
Darganfod-Discovery 2021: Dr Alan Lane
Dr Alan Lane of Cardiff University on ‘The Llangorse crannog: a short-lived Welsh royal site of the Viking Age’. (CAA Research Fund project)
Darganfod-Discovery 2021: Dr Rhiannon Comeau
Dr Rhiannon Comeau on ‘Pre-Norman focal zones and seasonality: a cantref-level case study’.
Darganfod-Discovery 2021: Dr Alice Forward
Dr Alice Forward of Allen Archaeology on ‘Lordship and communality in the 13th century. Four ram aquamaniles from South Glamorgan’.
Darganfod-Discovery 2021: Dr Rachel Swallow
Dr Rachel Swallow, Honorary Research Fellow at University of Liverpool, on ‘A square peg in a round hole: new interpretations for the eleventh-century northern Anglo-Welsh border, as told by the misfit Dodleston Castle in Cheshire’.
Darganfod-Discovery 2021: Posters
Posters by research students Tiffany Treadway, Andrew Reynolds, Meredith Hood, Chris Griffiths, Ciara Butler and Alexandra Evans, presented at the Cambrian Archaeological Association’s 2021 Darganfod-Discovery conference.
