Cardiff School of History, Archaeology and Religion

25/10/2012

First taught Coleg Cymraeg Cenedlaethol award for SHARE!

23/10/2012

Awards dinner Tuesday 23 October 2012

05/07/2011

Community archaeology project at Cosmeston makes new discovery.

20/06/2011

Archaeologists set to return to Caerleon in August 2011 to find out more about the newly discovered 'lost city' outside the fortress. Public tours every day and activities throughout the Bank Holiday weekend.

24/11/2010

10/04/2009

Students from the School participated in a field trip to Cornwall, partly funded by the Cyril Fox fund, as a practical method for furthering their research, and a stimulus for discussing issues in conservation and heritage. 

05/01/2009

Cardiff Archaeologist Professor Alasdair Whittle and colleagues have won £610,000 from the Arts and Humanities Research Council to study the first farmers in central Europe.

09/07/2008

Cardiff archaeologists Professor Douglass Bailey and Dr Steve Mills have won £108,000 worth of funding from the European Commission to participate in a pan-European project on landscapes, art and heritage.

13/03/2008

Archaeology postgraduate Frances Liardet has won a prestigious Rakow Grant from the Corning Museum of Glass, New York.  For her PhD research, Frances is studying a group of glass vessels from the Mediterranean known as alabastra and dating to the 6^th-5^th centuries BC.

13/08/2007

To begin in October 2007, this project, a collaborative investigation with the Department of the History of Art at the University of York, will be funded by a research grant of £130,000 to Professor Ian Freestone from the Leverhulme Trust.

13/08/2007

Students on the MSc Conservation scheme recently spent a day learning traditional blacksmithing techniques at the workshop of leading Welsh artist blacksmith David Peterson and his son Toby.

01/03/2006

Scholarship awarded to Penny Bickle, with which she will research her PhD dissertation, focussing on early Neolithic architecture from the Paris Basin.