Presentations from Darganfod/Discovery 2025 – a day dedicated to fascinating recent work on the archaeology of Wales and the Marches, held in conjunction with Cardiff University on 8th March 2025. This online conference was the third in our series of biennial conferences which showcased the work of winners of Cambrian Archaeological Association’s G. T. Clark and Dissertation (Gwobr Archaeoleg) prizes as well as work supported by the CAA Research Fund. The event also featured presentations by early career researchers.
Speakers (in on-the-day order): Paul Davis; Rachel Morgan-James; Katie Faillace; Hannah Lycett-Smith; Caroline Pudney; Sheridan Clements; Oliver Davis, Niall Sharples and Scott Bees; Anna-Elyse Young; Karen Lowery; Kate Churchill; Becky Vickers; Bill Powell; Cat Rees
Please note that not all of the talks are available on YouTube due to research in progress and copyright considerations. More information about the talks can be found on the event page: https://cambrians.org.uk/darganfod-discovery-conference-saturday-8th-march-2025/
Link to You Tube conference page.
Darganfod 2025: Becky Vickers
Becky Vickers on ‘Working Stone and Making Places in Neolithic Wales’. A talk given at the Cambrian Archaeological Association and Cardiff University 2025 Darganfod-Discovery conference.
Darganfod 2025: Bill Powell
Bill Powell on ‘Trying to Make Sense of why some Coastal Mesolithic and Early Neolithic People chose Movement into the (Neglected) Landscape of Inland Pembrokeshire’. A talk given at the Cambrian Archaeological Association and University of Cardiff 2025 Darganfod-Discovery conference.
Darganfod 2025: Caroline Pudney
Caroline Pudney on ‘A Roman Villa in Northeast Wales: discovery and implications’. A talk given at the Cambrian Archaeological Association and Cardiff University 2025 Darganfod-Discovery conference.
Darganfod 2025: Cat Rees
Cat Rees on ‘“Little men, who had been burnt, and their heads deposited in pots”: Using Welsh Myths, Traditions and Folklore to Enhance Interpretation of Pre-Roman Mortuary Sites’. A talk given at the Cambrian Archaeological Association and Cardiff University 2025 Darganfod-Discovery conference.
Darganfod 2025: Hannah Lycett-Smith
Hannah Lycett-Smith on ‘Chewing on the Past: what can dental microwear and calculus tell us about life in Early Medieval Llandough’. A talk given at the Cambrian Archaeological Association and Cardiff University 2025 Darganfod-Discovery conference.
Darganfod 2025: Kate Churchill
Kate Churchill on ‘The Prehistoric World of the Buckholt’. A talk given at the Cambrian Archaeological Association and Cardiff University 2025 Darganfod-Discovery conference.
Darganfod 2025: Katie Faillace
Katie Faillace on ‘Dietary Diversity in Medieval Wales: a high-resolution case study from Five Mile Lane, Barry’. A talk given at the Cambrian Archaeological Association and Cardiff University 2025 Darganfod-Discovery conference.
Darganfod 2025: Paul Davis
Paul Davis on ‘Houses in the Hills: dendrochronology and the farmhouses of upland Gwent’. A talk given at the Cambrian Archaeological Association and Cardiff University 2025 Darganfod-Discovery conference.