Excellent trip to Scotland last week. Ridiculous long drive but definitely worth it. So many sites seen, though bullocks and crops stopped me seeing all. Clava Cairns was 1st stop, v busy there 😞 but stunning nonetheless. Selection of sites below
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Tonight.Cardiff Arch Soc.Francesca Giarelli, Red River Archaeology.Excavation at Brookside Meadow.The presentation will be a summary of the discoveries.The preliminary results highlight long occupation of the site from late Bronze Age to the end of the Roman era,with the construction of a villa.
Cardiff Archaeological Society lecture 12/02/26 by Dr Lucy J E Cramp. Lifting the lid on ancient diet:organic residue analysis of lipids from pottery. This talk gives an overview of the field of organic residue analysis, illustrating how studies have cast new light on dietary practices in the past.
Our Town with @mchshe.bsky.social is incredible. Yesterday was the last night of the production in Swansea and we knew we'd witnessed something incredibly special. He makes you proud to be Welsh. See it if you can.
Cardiff Archaeological Society lecture tonight by Amal Khreisheh. The Chew Valley Hoard. It's the largest coin hoard ever found from the period of turmoil immediately following the Norman Conquest. It consists of 2,584 silver pennies that date to 1066 to 1068 and were likely buried for safekeeping.
Foggy at Stonehenge, crisp and beautiful at Avebury and sunny in Imber! Great wanderings for last day of 2025.
Cardiff Archaeological Society Tonight's lecture is by Chris Griffiths, Post Graduate Research Student, University of Reading. Hoarding in a material world: making sense of metalwork deposition in Middle-Late Bronze Age south-east and west Wales. Zoom only To join us, email cardiffarchsoc@gmail.com
@archaedelle.bsky.social the CAS lecture was excellent. The range of your study and different results were fascinating plus you totally threw me with mummification! Thank you for answering me.
Our lecture 27th Nov is by Dr Adelle Bricking-Patterns in the Paucity: Mortuary Practices in the Iron Age of Southwest Britain. New insights into the diverse funerary traditions & highlights their nuanced approaches to death & commemoration. To join us email cardiffarchsoc@gmail.com
16/10/25 Cardiff Archaeological Society Dr Ken Griffin The Coffin of Ankhpakhered:A Story of Burial, Usurpation, & Conservation.The anthropoid coffin of Ankhpakhered, reveals a compelling narrative of ancient Egyptian funerary practice and later usurpation. Email cardiffarchsoc@gmail.com to join us.
Cardiff Archaeological Society first lecture of this season is 2nd Oct with Julian Thomas, Professor of Archaeology-Arthur's Stone, Herefordshire:A chambered tomb in its context. The lecture is in person & online. To join the society, please email cardiffarchsoc@gmail.com #archaeology #neolithic
#TombTuesday Bryn Celli Ddu. #BRAG25 British Rock Art Group Conference in Anglesey, the weekend just gone. Excellent speakers then fascinating visits
#StandingStoneSunday One of the Devil's Arrows with me for scale. The crop growing there was quite tall, I'm not super small!
🐂 Not only can you not come in our field, we're going to scratch on the stones you want to see! Oh well, try again tomorrow
Lecture Feb 20th is Tom Hicks, Experimental Archaeologist, CAER Heritage Project. Learning Through Doing: Experimental Archaeology Partnerships that build learning opportunities at CAER Heritage. This is a hybrid lecture.To join, email cardiffarchsoc@gmail.com
Cardiff Archaeological Society- Our next hybrid Lecture is Thursday 16th January lecture by Professor George Nash Is there an Upper Palaeolithic art tradition in Wales? This lecture examines recent discoveries in South Wales. Please email cardiffarchaeologicalociety.co.uk to join the society.
2024 gave me a death, a wedding, a birth and a mayor with lots in between and after. We visited 2 of Ruby's favourite places today, seemed a fitting end to the year. Here's to 2025 x
Cardiff Archaeological Society. Thurs 12th Dec with Dr Toby Driver Landscapes of fear and respect :exploring the hillforts of Iron Age Wales. This lecture will look at the people, landscape and monuments of Iron Age Wales It's a zoom only lecture, email cardiffarchaeologicalsociety.co.uk to join us
Saturday turned out to be drier and far better for a wander than hoped.
