Research Projects & Reports
The School has produced a number of project reports, monographs, occasional papers and websites relevant to research in History & Archaeology. Please click on the links below for more information.
Reports and papers
A series of occasional papers published by the History and Welsh History section at Cardiff University.
Cardiff University Archaeology and Conservation produce specialist reports, monographs and websites. Please follow the link for details.
Projects
The legionary fortress at Caerleon and its environsSituated on the west bank of the River Usk, just north of the city of Newport, the town of Caerleon lies over some of the most remarkable and evocative remains from the Roman period in Britain. Beneath Caerleon lies the fortress of Isca, headquarters of the Second Augustan Legion and home to 5,500 heavily armed Roman citizen legionaries for some 200 years.
A pan-European project on landscape, art and heritage consisting of ten partners and funded by the European Commission. The Cardiff partner project is centred around the Romanian village of Magura and, through the process of scientific and artistic interventions, will gain new insight into the relationships that different groups of people have with their physical environment and associated archaeology.
Cardiff University School of History and Archaeology is working with the Vale of Glamorgan Council on an exciting new project to increase community awareness and access to learning about Cosmeston Medieval Village and the surrounding area.
The fourth millennium BC in Britain is coming into sharper chronological focus. Change and sequence are visible within what was even recently seen as an almost undifferentiated earlier Neolithic hundreds of years long.
Mosaics in the ancient world were mostly made for private houses, and, as we all instinctively know, you can tell a great deal about someone from their house. Studying mosaics and the other decoration of ancient houses provides fascinating insights into the activities, values, economic standing and social aspirations of people living in the past.
A research project whose purpose is the study of the supply, circulation and use of ancient coins within modern Wales. The intention is to better understand the production of coins (particularly by Rome) and the impact of coinage (especially Roman) on the diverse population of this part of western Britain from the first century BC to the fifth century AD.
The project aims to further develop knowledge of the early environment, settlement and social activity, also to investigate the relationship between the Islands and the Southwest British mainland and to further enhance understanding of the archaeology of the Atlantic façade. The project is of particular relevance for continuing research into cultural, economic and social responses to physical and climatic marginality on islands.
The contexts, aims and objectives of an interdisciplinary project on the environment, settlement and subsistence of the early Neolithic Körös culture (c. 6000-5500 BC) in south-eastern Hungary.
Geophysical survey and excavation were undertaken on the site of the recently discovered Roman fort and settlement at Caergwanaf near Miskin during 2004.
An achive produced to increase the availability of the data derived from the Scalloway post excavation process.
Applying Auditory Archaeology to Historic Landscape Characterisation:an English Heritage funded pilot project in the former mining landscape of Geevor and Levant Mines, West Penwith, Cornwall.
This AHRC-funded project (grant number AH/F018126/1) aims to investigate diversity in the lifeways of the early European Neolithic LBK culture (Linearbandkeramik culture, c. 5500-4900 cal BC) using a combination of stable isotope, osteological and archaeological analyses.
The Norse settlement at Bornish, South Uist. An interim report on the 2000 excavations (with links to interim reports for the 1999, 1997 and 1996 excavations).
A survey that developed out of the excavation project around Monte Pallano. The research objectives of the project are closely related to the extraordinary position of the Roman municipium of Iuvanum, situated high on a plateau between the Aventino and Sangro valleys in central Italy, an area which is dominated by the massif of the Maiella.
This AHRC funded project is investigating the manuscript tradition of the French text of William of Tyre’s History of the Crusades, and will lead to a critical edition of the Old French Continuations of that work.
A project that aims to refine and broaden our understanding of long-term patterns of landuse and settlement in southeastern Europe.
Websites hosted by the School of History and Archaeology
The Caerleon Research Committee was established in 2005 to promote and co-ordinate research in and around the Roman legionary fortress of Isca and to disseminate the results to as wide an audience as possible.
If you are interested in the classical world and are based in or near Cardiff, you are warmly invited to join the local branch of the Classical Association.