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Aberystwyth

Archaeology

Status:Active, open to new members
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Group email: Archaeology group
When: Archaeoleg

The Group meets monthly, first Thursday, in the Arts Centre at 2.30pm.

A speaker will introduce a topic and take questions - sessions will usually end before 4pm.

Please contact Fred by clicking Archaeology Group contact for more details, if you'd be interested in joining us.

Recent topics

2025

  • February: visit to Llandre Church led by Dr. Avril Thomas
  • March: Martin Bates, Way Out West: Before the Farmers
  • April: Max Dobson, Climate Change and Human Responses Climate change and human responses
  • May: field trip to Martin Bates’ excavation at Llanllyr, Talsarn
  • June 2025: visit to St. Matthew’s Church, Borth led by Margaret Griffiths

2024

  • January: Simon Timberlake, Prehistoric-Medieval Mining and Smelting in Wales; the work of the Early Mines Research Group
  • February: Toby Driver, Exploring the Hillforts of Iron Age Wales
  • March: Roger Boyle, Kober, Ventris and the Decipherment of Linear B
  • April: Denis Bates, Forests, salt marshes and estuarine channels: the Holocene story of Borth-Ynyslas
  • May: Simon Rodway, Pre-Roman languages. Download LanguageInPrehistory.pptx
  • July: Tour of Felin Ganol, Llanrhystud
  • October: Simon Rodway, In Search of the Prehistoric Languages of Britain
  • November: Michael Freeman, The Archaeology of Llanon

2022/3

  • February (2022): Fran Murphy, Excavation of Pendinas Download Murphy.pptx
  • November: Michael Freeman, Archaeological Myths in Ceredigion
  • December: Jon Dollery, Digital resources in Wales for archaeology. Download Dollery.pptx
  • January (2023): Martin Davies, a new Roman Road in Ceredigion
  • February: Prof. Martin Bates, Early Prehistoric Ceredigion Download Bates.ppt
  • March: Roger Boyle, How Old Is It? Download 230302.odp
  • April: Stephen Briggs, Did he fall or was he pushed? Some unanswered questions on Bog Bodies.
  • May: Will Troughton, Standing Stones of Ceredigion Download StandingStones.pptx
  • June:Ioan Lord, Worn by Tools and Time
  • July: Stephen Briggs - field trip to Nant y Moch
  • October: Martin Davies, Cae Gaer to Penllwyn: a hitherto unrecorded proposed Roman route; plus a branch with a lot of surviving road down to Devil's Bridge”
  • November: Michael Freeman, A history of the summit of Yr Wyddfa / Snowdon - botanists, antiquarians and tourists

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