Programme
Saturday 7th October
08.45 | Registration |
09.20 | Welcome |
09.30 | The Isle of Man: new medieval discoveries. Andrew Johnson |
10.20 | Marking life and land: using seasonal patterning and place-names to characterise the pre-Conquest landscape. Rhiannon Comeau |
10.50 | Contextualising early medieval charred cereal deposits in south-west Wales from the LNG pipeline excavations 2009-2011. Heather James |
11.20 | Tea and coffee |
11.50 | An Early Medieval Settlement and Field System at Rhuddgaer, south-west Anglesey. David Hopewell |
12.20 | Hen Gastell: a medieval defended site in North West Wales. Jane Kenney |
12.50 | Lunch |
13.50 | Field trip. We plan to visit the hillfort at Dinas Emrys (if not raining hard) and Hen Gastell. Sensible clothing and footwear are essential (some steep terrain) If it is too wet then the field trip will be to Hen Gastell, followed by a visit to the ogam- and roman-letter inscribed stone and the former site of the Roman fort at Llystyn-gwyn (Dolbenmaen 2 CN18) and a new cross-carved stone near Bontnewydd. |
19.30 | Conference dinner (pay as you go) in Sopna Tandoori Restaurant, Menai Bridge |
Sunday 8th October
09.00 | Coins, cows, and currency: rethinking exchange in early medieval Wales. Murray Andrews |
09.30 | Uncovering St Piran’s Oratory: Understanding and conserving an iconic Cornish structure. James Gossip |
10.00 | Early medieval activity in north Ceredigion. Iestyn Jones |
10.30 | Tea and coffee |
11.00 | Llangefni Link Road Early Medieval Cemetery. Iwan Parry |
11.30 | An early medieval cemetery below St Patrick’s Chapel, Pembrokeshire: the 2016 excavation results. Marion Shiner |
12.00 | A bioarchaeological study of the early medieval cemetery below St Patrick’s Chapel, Pembrokeshire. Katie A. Hemer |
12.30 | Early Medieval Cemeteries at Llaniestyn and Llanbedrgoch. Robert Evans |
13.00 | Lunch |
14.00 | Memory, Movement and the Early Medieval Cross at Maen Achwyfan. Howard Williams |
14.30 | Mapping Maritime Cultures: The Early Medieval Irish Sea region. David Griffiths |
15.20 | Discussion of next venue and close |