Cardiff Archaeological Society Lectures 2012/2013
Visitors are welcome to attend our lectures and staff and students of Cardiff University are particularly welcome.
Lectures are held in the Small Chemistry Lecture Theatre (Room 1.112), Main Building, Cardiff University, Cathays Park, starting at 7.15 pm on Thursdays as shown below.
2012
Oct 11th Dr Andrew Seaman
Lecturer, Canterbury Christ Church University
‘Dinas Powys Revisited: Recent work at Dinas Powys hillfort and Tyn y Coed’
Oct 25th Edward Besly
Assistant Keeper of Archaeology and Numismatics, National Museum Wales
‘The Llantrithyd Hoard and other finds of medieval coins from South Wales’
Nov 8th Nigel Nayling
Lecturer in Archaeology, University of Wales, Trinity Saint David
‘Leafing through time: tree-rings and maritime archaeology’
Nov 22nd Dr Nick Ashton
Curator of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic collections, The British Museum
‘Conquering the North: the first humans in Britain’
Dec 6th Capt. Richard Jeynes
Managing Director, TRAILQUEST
‘In search of the Foreign Legion – Desert outposts in SE Morocco’
2013
Jan 10th Oliver Blackmore
Curator, Newport Museum and Art Gallery
‘Antiquarian excavations at Caerwent – 1899 to 1912’
Jan 24th Professor Alasdair Whittle,
Distinguished Research Professor in Archaeology, School of History, Archaeology and Religious Studies, Cardiff University
‘Gathering time and time gathered: dating the early Neolithic enclosures of southern Britain and Ireland’
Feb 7th Richard Lewis
Head of Projects, Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust Ltd
‘Ffos-y-fran – The excavation of an early industrial extractive landscape in Merthyr Tydfil’
Feb 21st Professor Ray Howell
Reader in History and Historical Archaeology, University of Wales, Newport
‘Resistance and revival: Caerleon in the Middle Ages’