Lecture Series – February 2022 update
Regretfully, due to circumstances beyond our control, the February 2022 lecture is not able to go ahead and has been cancelled. Currently it is planned that the March and April lectures will go ahead as advertised. Updates will be posted as they become available.
Lecture Series – January 2022 update
Regretfully, following the introduction of amended Welsh guidelines, the January 2022 lecture is not able to go ahead and has been cancelled. It is hoped that later lectures will be able to take place. Updates will be posted as they become available.
Visit to Waun Mawn
Having not been able to meet at all during the 2020-21 season it was a real pleasure to be able to start the 2021-22 season with a field visit. On Saturday 11th September a group of twenty five members visited the Waun Mawn Neolithic stone circle site where there is...
Wales Air Ambulance virtual castle fundraising event
Katie, the South West Community Fundraiser for Wales Air Ambulance, has written to say that in June Wales Air Ambulance is launching a virtual event called Walk Wales; Castle to Castle Challenge. Castles are an important part of Wales’ history and we are lucky enough...
BBC Documentary on the Excavations at Brynberian
Professor Mike Parker Pearson's years of archaeological excavations around Brynberian are the subject of a BBC2 documentary to be shown at 9.00pm on Friday 12 February. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000s5xm It includes film of the digs at Craig Rhos-y-felin, up on...
Important Iron Age Discovery in West Wales
Iron Age archaeological site in west Wales Statement from Amgueddfa Cymru and Cadw "In March 2018, a metal-detectorist uncovered and reported a find of a group of Iron Age metal artefacts in a field in west Wales. These are now the subject of an ongoing treasure case...
Discovering the Lost Story of Sion House
By Douglas Fraser In the 21st issue of this journal (2012) an article edited by Michael Eastham John Nash's Houses in Pembrokeshire by I Wyn Jones (1928-2004) mentioned Sion House in Tenby. This was built in 1790 for William Routh, a printer and publisher from...
Our Data Protection Policy
DATA PROTECTION POLICY The Society’s policy regarding the treatment of data under the General Data Protection Regulations is summarized in this document. Data to be collected and held The Society collects and stores membership data as follows: name, address,...
On-line database maps 4,147 sites in the British Isles
A team of researches has spent five years sifting information on all the hill forts across the UK, Republic of Ireland and the Isle of Man. An atlas showing the location of these sites has now been launched on-line as is freely available to researchers on...
Newport’s Medieval Pottery Kiln
Newport's recently discovered medieval pottery kiln is a rare survival. Although its ware chamber is no longer there, the base reveals that it had a sophisticated vent technology which increased the capacity of the kiln and facilitated heat distribution and the even...