EARLY MEDIEVAL WALES ARCHAEOLOGY RESEARCH GROUP COLLOQUIUM
Recent Research and Excavation in Wales
st nd Saturday 21 & Sunday 22 September 2019 Mariners Hotel, Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire SA61 2DU
Cost: £50 (Students £35)
To include refreshments, packed lunch (Saturday only) and book launch.
Field trip (Saturday pm) £20
Three-course conference dinner £26.50
To register: Please send a cheque made out to Nancy Edwards (EMWARG) to Professor Nancy Edwards, School of History, Philosophy and Social Sciences, Bangor University, Bangor, LL57 2DG.
th Closing date Friday 6 September 2019
Please contact Marion Shiner with any queries – [email protected]
st Saturday 21 September
09.00: Registration
09.20: Welcome
09.30: Keynote: Jacky Nowakowski ‘Researching Tintagel, Dumnonia and post-Roman Britain’
10.30: Coffee
11.00: Paul Belford ‘Recent work on Offa's and Wat's Dykes in Wrexham’
11.30: Keith Ray ‘Offa’s Dyke north of Treuddyn, Flintshire: Reconsidering the Gwynedd/Mercia frontier in North-East Wales’
12.00: Chris Caple ‘Traces of an Earlier Welsh Culture in an Anglo-Norman World – Evidence from Nevern Castle’
13.00 –18.00: Field trip (packed lunch provided). Suitable clothing and footwear necessary.
Taking in St Dogwells Church ogham and Latin inscribed stone and newly noted cross-carved stone; Garn Turne (‘Three Lords Stone’) meeting point of 4 cantrefi; Crugiau Cemais Bronze Age barrows with later burials with assembly site?; Caer Bayvil early medieval cemetery in an older enclosure with Bayfil Fair/assembly site nearby; Nevern Church, cross and inscribed stones; Nevern Castle. Led by Rhiannon Comeau, Chris Caple, Nancy Edwards, Heather James.
19.00: Reception to launch Living off the Land (eds) Rhiannon Comeau and Andy Seaman (Oxbow Books)
nd Sunday 22 September 9.30: Andy Seaman, Tudor Davies and Stephen Rippon ‘Manifestations of Empire: Palaeoenvironmental Analysis and the End of Roman Britain: Preliminary Results and Interpretations’
10.00: Marion Shiner ‘Shared Spaces: Identifying Potential ‘Cemetery Settlements’ in Early Medieval Wales
10.30: Coffee
11.00: David Parsons ‘Dating place-names in llan’
11.30: Keynote: Adrián Maldonado ‘Iona at the Millennium: new insights on the monastery in the Viking Age’
12.30: Marion Shiner ‘A brief introduction to the latest excavations at St Patrick’s Chapel’
12.45: Depart for visit to current excavations at St Patrick’s Chapel, Whitesands Bay, StDavids (in cars)
Speakers: Ken Murphy, Marion Shiner. Suitable clothing and footwear necessary.