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Mwynglawdd Ystrad Einion, Ceredigion
Golwg wedi’i adlunio yn dangos y mwynglawdd yn y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg.
NPRN 33908, DI2012_0017 Hawlfraint y Goron CBHC
Mae animeiddiad diweddaraf y Comisiwn Brenhinol yn rhoi bywyd newydd i olion diwydiannol mwynglawdd metel Ystrad Einion sy’n dyddio’n ôl i ddiwedd y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Mwynglawdd plwm-arian, sinc a chopr Ystrad Einion, sydd wedi’i leoli yng nghanol Cwm Einion (Artists Valley), yw un o’r mwyngloddiau mwyaf gogleddol yng Ngheredigion. Cafodd yr animeiddiad gyda throslais, sy’n ail-greu hanes a phrosesau’r mwynglawdd, ei ariannu drwy brosiect PLWM Cyngor Sir Ceredigion a gwnaed yr ymchwil gan y Comisiwn Brenhinol ac Ymddiriedolaeth Cadwraeth Mwynfeydd Cymru. Cafodd ei gynhyrchu gan ay-pe Ltd.
Cewch weld yr animeiddiad yma: Ystrad Einion
Y mwynglawdd heddiw.
NPRN 33908, DS2011_075_002 Hawlfraint y Goron CBHC
Ystrad Einion, Coflein:Coflein - Darganfod Ein Gorffennol Ar-Lein
Coflein yw cronfa ddata ar-lein Cofnod Henebion Cenedlaethol Cymru (CHCC), y casgliad cenedlaethol o wybodaeth am amgylchedd hanesyddol Cymru.
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NPRN 33908, DI2012_0017 Hawlfraint y Goron CBHC
Mae animeiddiad diweddaraf y Comisiwn Brenhinol yn rhoi bywyd newydd i olion diwydiannol mwynglawdd metel Ystrad Einion sy’n dyddio’n ôl i ddiwedd y bedwaredd ganrif ar bymtheg. Mwynglawdd plwm-arian, sinc a chopr Ystrad Einion, sydd wedi’i leoli yng nghanol Cwm Einion (Artists Valley), yw un o’r mwyngloddiau mwyaf gogleddol yng Ngheredigion. Cafodd yr animeiddiad gyda throslais, sy’n ail-greu hanes a phrosesau’r mwynglawdd, ei ariannu drwy brosiect PLWM Cyngor Sir Ceredigion a gwnaed yr ymchwil gan y Comisiwn Brenhinol ac Ymddiriedolaeth Cadwraeth Mwynfeydd Cymru. Cafodd ei gynhyrchu gan ay-pe Ltd.
Cewch weld yr animeiddiad yma: Ystrad Einion
Y mwynglawdd heddiw.
NPRN 33908, DS2011_075_002 Hawlfraint y Goron CBHC
Ystrad Einion, Coflein:Coflein - Darganfod Ein Gorffennol Ar-Lein
Coflein yw cronfa ddata ar-lein Cofnod Henebion Cenedlaethol Cymru (CHCC), y casgliad cenedlaethol o wybodaeth am amgylchedd hanesyddol Cymru.
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Ceredigion Metal Mine Brought Back To Life
Reconstructed view showing the mine in the nineteenth century.
NPRN 33908, DI2012_0017 Crown Copyright RCAHMW
The industrial remains of the late nineteenth century metal mine of Ystrad Einion, have been brought back to life in the latest animation by the Royal Commission. Ystrad Einion lead-silver, zinc and copper mine is one of the most northerly mines in Ceredigion, situated in the heart of Cwm Einion (Artists Valley). The animation with voiceover, reconstructing the history and process of this mine was funded through Ceredigion County Council's PLWM project and was researched by the Royal Commission and the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust. It was produced by ay-pe Ltd.
You can view the animation here: Ystrad Einion
The mine today.
NPRN 33908, DS2011_075_002 Crown Copyright RCAHMW
Ystrad Einion, Coflein:Coflein - Discovering Our Past Online
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NPRN 33908, DI2012_0017 Crown Copyright RCAHMW
The industrial remains of the late nineteenth century metal mine of Ystrad Einion, have been brought back to life in the latest animation by the Royal Commission. Ystrad Einion lead-silver, zinc and copper mine is one of the most northerly mines in Ceredigion, situated in the heart of Cwm Einion (Artists Valley). The animation with voiceover, reconstructing the history and process of this mine was funded through Ceredigion County Council's PLWM project and was researched by the Royal Commission and the Welsh Mines Preservation Trust. It was produced by ay-pe Ltd.
You can view the animation here: Ystrad Einion
The mine today.
NPRN 33908, DS2011_075_002 Crown Copyright RCAHMW
Ystrad Einion, Coflein:Coflein - Discovering Our Past Online
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Could A Cow Shed in Llanrwst be Wales' Oldest House? BBC News Story
Dr Dan Miles at work, collecting tree-ring samples.Our Heritage of Wales blogs in recent weeks highlighted the Royal Commission’s partnership with the tree-ring dating project of North-west Wales, and especially the possible dating of the earlier historic house at Plas Tirion, Llanwrst. This story was picked up by the BBC last Friday, 3 February. Following a flurry of phone enquiries from the BBC to the Royal Commission, it went on to feature on the radio, the BBC news website and the Welsh national news later that evening. These can now be viewed by simply clicking the links below:
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Olrhain Hanes Pontypridd
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Golwg o Hen Bont Pontypridd a dynnwyd ym 1975.O Gasgliadau Cofnod Henebion Cenedlaethol Cymru: Hawlfraint y Goron: Swyddfa Hysbysrwydd Ganolog
Mae Pontypridd wedi'i lleoli ar gymer afonydd Taf a Rhondda, ac yn borth cymoedd Caerdydd. Cafodd ei disgrifio gan yr awdur a nofelydd Gwyn Thomas yn 'Damascus y Cymoedd'. Mae'r dref yn enwog nid yn unig fel man geni Tom Jones ac anthem genedlaethol Cymru Hen Wlad fy Nhadau, ond hefyd am ei phont un bwa (o le daw ei henw) a Gweithfeydd Cadwyni Brown Lennox a gynhyrchodd angorau agerlongau mawr Brunel.
Mae tirnod hynaf Pontypridd yn cael ei adnabod yn lleol fel 'yr Hen Bont'. Fe'i hadeiladwyd ynghanol y ddeunawfed ganrif gan William Edwards, ei bedwerydd ymgais i adeiladu pont droed un bwa dros Afon Taf. Yr Hen Bont oedd pont un bwa hiraf Prydain – 140 troedfedd – pan agorodd ym 1756 a pharhaodd yr hiraf tan y 1790au. Costiodd y fenter £1,150 i William Edwards ( £195,544 yn arian heddiw). Mae ei chynllun yn nodedig oherwydd y tri thwll silindrog o wahanol feintiau ar y naill ochr, ac mae hi wedi bod yn ddelwedd ganolog yn hunaniaeth y dref erioed.
Hen Bont Pontypridd, Coflein:
Casgliad y Werin Cymru -
Straeon Cymunedol
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Golwg o Hen Bont Pontypridd a dynnwyd ym 1975.O Gasgliadau Cofnod Henebion Cenedlaethol Cymru: Hawlfraint y Goron: Swyddfa Hysbysrwydd Ganolog
Mae Pontypridd wedi'i lleoli ar gymer afonydd Taf a Rhondda, ac yn borth cymoedd Caerdydd. Cafodd ei disgrifio gan yr awdur a nofelydd Gwyn Thomas yn 'Damascus y Cymoedd'. Mae'r dref yn enwog nid yn unig fel man geni Tom Jones ac anthem genedlaethol Cymru Hen Wlad fy Nhadau, ond hefyd am ei phont un bwa (o le daw ei henw) a Gweithfeydd Cadwyni Brown Lennox a gynhyrchodd angorau agerlongau mawr Brunel.
Mae tirnod hynaf Pontypridd yn cael ei adnabod yn lleol fel 'yr Hen Bont'. Fe'i hadeiladwyd ynghanol y ddeunawfed ganrif gan William Edwards, ei bedwerydd ymgais i adeiladu pont droed un bwa dros Afon Taf. Yr Hen Bont oedd pont un bwa hiraf Prydain – 140 troedfedd – pan agorodd ym 1756 a pharhaodd yr hiraf tan y 1790au. Costiodd y fenter £1,150 i William Edwards ( £195,544 yn arian heddiw). Mae ei chynllun yn nodedig oherwydd y tri thwll silindrog o wahanol feintiau ar y naill ochr, ac mae hi wedi bod yn ddelwedd ganolog yn hunaniaeth y dref erioed.
Hen Bont Pontypridd, Coflein:
Casgliad y Werin Cymru -
Straeon Cymunedol
- Cyflwyniad
- Dyfodiad Diwydiant
- Y Brenin Glo
- Yr Anthem Genedlaethol a Chwm Rhondda
- Chwaraeon
- Rasio cŵn
- Ochr dywyll bywyd ym Mhontypridd yn Oes Victoria
- Canlyniad: Tua'r Dyfodol
- Pontypridd, Dydd Llun 22:35
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Tracing The History Of Pontypridd
View of Pontypridd Old Bridge taken in 1975.
From the Collections of the National Monuments Record of Wales: Crown copyright: Central Office of Information
Situated at the meeting point of the Taff and Rhondda rivers, Pontypridd is the gateway of the Cardiff valleys. Once described by the writer and novelist Gwyn Thomas as the ‘Damascus of the Valleys’, the town is famous not only as the birthplace of Tom Jones and the Welsh National Anthem Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, but also for its single-span arch bridge (from which Pontypridd draws its name) and the Brown Lennox Chainworks that made the anchors for Brunel’s great Victorian steamships.
Pontypridd’s oldest landmark is known locally as the ‘Old Bridge’. Constructed in the middle of the eighteenth century by William Edwards, the bridge was Edwards’ fourth attempt at building a single-span footbridge across the river Taff. At 140ft, the Old Bridge was the longest single-span bridge in Britain when it opened in 1756 and remained so until the 1790s. The entire enterprise had cost William Edwards over £1,150 (or the equivalent of £195,544 in today’s prices). Distinctive in its design with three different sized cylindrical holes on each side of the bridge, this has been the central image in the town’s identity ever since.
Coflein - Pontypridd Old Bridge:
People's Collection Wales -
Community Stories
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From the Collections of the National Monuments Record of Wales: Crown copyright: Central Office of Information
Situated at the meeting point of the Taff and Rhondda rivers, Pontypridd is the gateway of the Cardiff valleys. Once described by the writer and novelist Gwyn Thomas as the ‘Damascus of the Valleys’, the town is famous not only as the birthplace of Tom Jones and the Welsh National Anthem Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, but also for its single-span arch bridge (from which Pontypridd draws its name) and the Brown Lennox Chainworks that made the anchors for Brunel’s great Victorian steamships.
Pontypridd’s oldest landmark is known locally as the ‘Old Bridge’. Constructed in the middle of the eighteenth century by William Edwards, the bridge was Edwards’ fourth attempt at building a single-span footbridge across the river Taff. At 140ft, the Old Bridge was the longest single-span bridge in Britain when it opened in 1756 and remained so until the 1790s. The entire enterprise had cost William Edwards over £1,150 (or the equivalent of £195,544 in today’s prices). Distinctive in its design with three different sized cylindrical holes on each side of the bridge, this has been the central image in the town’s identity ever since.
Coflein - Pontypridd Old Bridge:
People's Collection Wales -
Community Stories
- Introduction
- The Coming of Industry
- King Coal
- National Anthem & Cwm Rhondda
- Sporting Life
- Going the the Dogs
- The Dark Side of Life in Victorian Pontypridd
- Conclusion: Towards the Future
- Pontypridd, Monday 22:35
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Tree-ring Dating At Plas Tirion, Llanwrst
Plaster overmantel with figures of War and Peace in teh Great Chamber of Plas Tirion
NPRN 27773 GTJ22363
As mentioned in last week’s Heritage of Wales blog , as part of their partnership work with the Dating Old Welsh Houses community-based history project, Royal Commission staff recently visited a cluster of historical houses nestling in the Conwy Valley. One of the finest examples of these houses is Plas Tirion, an early-seventeenth-century winged-mansion with wonderfully-preserved plasterwork dated 1626 and 1628. The house is currently being lovingly restored by Nat and Sophie Scharer of the Natural Building Centre. To the south-west of the house lies a cowshed which unexpectedly incorporates the earlier house. Here, a single archaic smoke-blackened cruck truss survives and was successfully sampled by the dendrochronologist, Dan Miles.
The visit has been captured on three short films made by Huw Jenkins, community reporter for BBC Radio Wales, and may be viewed by simply clicking the link below.
http://datingoldwelshhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/plas-tirion.html
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NPRN 27773 GTJ22363
As mentioned in last week’s Heritage of Wales blog , as part of their partnership work with the Dating Old Welsh Houses community-based history project, Royal Commission staff recently visited a cluster of historical houses nestling in the Conwy Valley. One of the finest examples of these houses is Plas Tirion, an early-seventeenth-century winged-mansion with wonderfully-preserved plasterwork dated 1626 and 1628. The house is currently being lovingly restored by Nat and Sophie Scharer of the Natural Building Centre. To the south-west of the house lies a cowshed which unexpectedly incorporates the earlier house. Here, a single archaic smoke-blackened cruck truss survives and was successfully sampled by the dendrochronologist, Dan Miles.
The visit has been captured on three short films made by Huw Jenkins, community reporter for BBC Radio Wales, and may be viewed by simply clicking the link below.
http://datingoldwelshhouses.blogspot.com/2012/01/plas-tirion.html
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Digital Past 2012 - PROGRAMME
Digital Past 2012
New technologies in heritage, interpretation & outreach
Weds 22nd-Thurs 23rd February 2012, Llandrindod Wells
PROGRAMME
Day 1 Wednesday 22nd February
CONFERENCE SESSION ONE (Main auditorium)
09.00 Registration: Tea and coffee on arrival
10.30 Welcome: Peter Wakelin (RCAHMW)
10.40 Opening address: Professor Huw Bowen (University of Swansea)
Chair: tbc
11.00 Sharing our Digital Past: Digital innovation at the Royal Commission Louise Barker & David Thomas (RCAHMW)
11.40 Digitally preserving a submerged Bronze Age city: The Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project: Dr. Jon Henderson (Nottingham University)
12.20 The use of social media in heritage organisations: James Mott (ProjectBook)
13.00 Lunch
PARALLEL CONFERENCE SESSIONS
Heritage at Risk: Preservation by Record and Conservation strategies – papers. (Main auditorium) Chair: tbc 14.00 Digital technology in commercial archaeology: Marcus Abbot (ArcHeritage) 14.30 Setting standards: new guidelines on data capture, processing and archiving: James Hepher (Historic Scotland) 15:00 Discovering the submerged landscapes off the Welsh coast – The West Coast Palaeolandscapes Project: Ken Murphy (Dyfed Archaeological Trust)
The Digital Marketplace – seminar. (First floor seminar room)
Chair: Tom Pert 14.00 Social media: James Mott (Projectbook) & tbc 14.40 Digital Inclusion: Does it work? Peter Austin (Ceredigion County Council) & Tom Hadfield (Visit Wales)
15.30 Tea, coffee & cakes
UNCONFERENCE SESSION (Main auditorium, board room & first floor seminar room)
Chairs: Toby Driver, Susan Fielding & Tom Pert
16.00 Unconference session (15 minute presentation slots available to be booked on the day, to run over 3 rooms)
17.45 Open house
18.15 Close
Evening conference dinner, The Metropole, for those paying to attend
Day 2 Thursday 23rd February
TRAINING SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS
9.00 tea and coffee on arrival 9.30 Workshops Handling LiDAR: Oliver Davis (RCAHMW) Terrestrial laser scanning: Paul Burrows (Leica Geo-Systems) Point cloud data: Creating accurate visualisations for heritage sites: CAST Uploading information to the Peoples Collection Wales: Sioned Rees-Jones (Culturenet Cymru) Archaeological Photography - New Techniques: Adam Stanford (Aerial-Cam) Others tbc
11.00 Tea, coffee and cakes
11.25 Depart for parallel conference sessions
PARALLEL CONFERENCE SESSIONS
The Digital Marketplace – papers. (Main auditorium) Chair: Tom Pert 11.30 The App Furnace project: Jo Reid (Calvium Ltd) 12.00 Placebooks; Community based e-trails: Dr Alan Chamberlain (Nottingham University) 12.30 The importance of having the right infrastructures in place when dealing with new audiences and new technologies: Dominique Attwood & Sue Davies (Leeds Museums and Galleries)ORHeritage At Risk: Preservation by Record and Conservation strategies – seminar. (First floor seminar room)
Chair: tbc 11.30 Setting standards I: James Hepher (Historic Scotland) & tbc 12.10 Setting standards II: Marcus Abbott (ArcHeritage), Paul Bryan (English Heritage) & Neil Maylan (Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust)
13.00 Lunch
CONFERENCE SESSION TWO (Main auditorium)
Chair: tbc
14.00 “Botafumeiro and Portico de la Gloria”; Virtual enhancement of the cultural heritage by interactive applications: Julián Flores (University of Santiago de Compostela)
14.40 Making the most of digital technologies on archaeological excavations: visualising the Roman legionary fortress at Caerleon: Dr. Peter Guest (Cardiff University)
15.20 Recent survey work at Stonehenge: Trevor Pearson & Paul Bryan (English Heritage)
16.00 Summing Up: Kate Roberts (Cadw)
16.20 Close
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DIGITAL PAST 2012 - Full Details
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New technologies in heritage, interpretation & outreach
Weds 22nd-Thurs 23rd February 2012, Llandrindod Wells
PROGRAMME
Day 1 Wednesday 22nd February
CONFERENCE SESSION ONE (Main auditorium)
09.00 Registration: Tea and coffee on arrival
10.30 Welcome: Peter Wakelin (RCAHMW)
10.40 Opening address: Professor Huw Bowen (University of Swansea)
Chair: tbc
11.00 Sharing our Digital Past: Digital innovation at the Royal Commission Louise Barker & David Thomas (RCAHMW)
11.40 Digitally preserving a submerged Bronze Age city: The Pavlopetri Underwater Archaeology Project: Dr. Jon Henderson (Nottingham University)
12.20 The use of social media in heritage organisations: James Mott (ProjectBook)
13.00 Lunch
PARALLEL CONFERENCE SESSIONS
Heritage at Risk: Preservation by Record and Conservation strategies – papers. (Main auditorium) Chair: tbc 14.00 Digital technology in commercial archaeology: Marcus Abbot (ArcHeritage) 14.30 Setting standards: new guidelines on data capture, processing and archiving: James Hepher (Historic Scotland) 15:00 Discovering the submerged landscapes off the Welsh coast – The West Coast Palaeolandscapes Project: Ken Murphy (Dyfed Archaeological Trust)
The Digital Marketplace – seminar. (First floor seminar room)
Chair: Tom Pert 14.00 Social media: James Mott (Projectbook) & tbc 14.40 Digital Inclusion: Does it work? Peter Austin (Ceredigion County Council) & Tom Hadfield (Visit Wales)
15.30 Tea, coffee & cakes
UNCONFERENCE SESSION (Main auditorium, board room & first floor seminar room)
Chairs: Toby Driver, Susan Fielding & Tom Pert
16.00 Unconference session (15 minute presentation slots available to be booked on the day, to run over 3 rooms)
17.45 Open house
18.15 Close
Evening conference dinner, The Metropole, for those paying to attend
Day 2 Thursday 23rd February
TRAINING SESSIONS AND WORKSHOPS
9.00 tea and coffee on arrival 9.30 Workshops Handling LiDAR: Oliver Davis (RCAHMW) Terrestrial laser scanning: Paul Burrows (Leica Geo-Systems) Point cloud data: Creating accurate visualisations for heritage sites: CAST Uploading information to the Peoples Collection Wales: Sioned Rees-Jones (Culturenet Cymru) Archaeological Photography - New Techniques: Adam Stanford (Aerial-Cam) Others tbc
11.00 Tea, coffee and cakes
11.25 Depart for parallel conference sessions
PARALLEL CONFERENCE SESSIONS
The Digital Marketplace – papers. (Main auditorium) Chair: Tom Pert 11.30 The App Furnace project: Jo Reid (Calvium Ltd) 12.00 Placebooks; Community based e-trails: Dr Alan Chamberlain (Nottingham University) 12.30 The importance of having the right infrastructures in place when dealing with new audiences and new technologies: Dominique Attwood & Sue Davies (Leeds Museums and Galleries)ORHeritage At Risk: Preservation by Record and Conservation strategies – seminar. (First floor seminar room)
Chair: tbc 11.30 Setting standards I: James Hepher (Historic Scotland) & tbc 12.10 Setting standards II: Marcus Abbott (ArcHeritage), Paul Bryan (English Heritage) & Neil Maylan (Glamorgan Gwent Archaeological Trust)
13.00 Lunch
CONFERENCE SESSION TWO (Main auditorium)
Chair: tbc
14.00 “Botafumeiro and Portico de la Gloria”; Virtual enhancement of the cultural heritage by interactive applications: Julián Flores (University of Santiago de Compostela)
14.40 Making the most of digital technologies on archaeological excavations: visualising the Roman legionary fortress at Caerleon: Dr. Peter Guest (Cardiff University)
15.20 Recent survey work at Stonehenge: Trevor Pearson & Paul Bryan (English Heritage)
16.00 Summing Up: Kate Roberts (Cadw)
16.20 Close
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DIGITAL PAST 2012 - Full Details
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Dating Old Welsh Houses Using Dendrochronology
Plas Tirion, Llanwrst, one of the houses tree-ring dated this week.
NPRN 27773 GTJ22359
Earlier this week, Royal Commission staff visited the Conwy valley, to work with Margaret Dunn, the director of the Dating Old Welsh Houses project in evaluating the final batch of houses, which will now be tree-ring dated by Dr Dan Miles and Dr Martin Bridge from the Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory. Working in partnership with the Royal Commission, Dating Old Welsh Houses is a community-based history project focused on dating historic houses in the counties of North-west Wales and then compiling their house histories. In the last three years over sixty houses have been successfully dated by the partnership project and revealed some remarkable results. Contrary to the traditional view that North Wales was an architectural backwater in terms of houses, the results of the project show that the characteristic Snowdonian house took shape in the early sixteenth-century much earlier than previously believed. The work of this project was featured on Wednesday, 25 January by BBC Radio Wales on the Roy Noble programme by their community-reporter, Huw Jenkins. This interview will now be available for the next week on the BBC iPlayer. To learn more about the work of the partnership project, click on the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b019m7bm and fast-forward to 1 hour and 48 minutes into the programme. Many of the results are already available in the National Monuments Record and on Coflein.
PLAS TIRION
Coflein - Discovering Our Past Online
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NPRN 27773 GTJ22359
Earlier this week, Royal Commission staff visited the Conwy valley, to work with Margaret Dunn, the director of the Dating Old Welsh Houses project in evaluating the final batch of houses, which will now be tree-ring dated by Dr Dan Miles and Dr Martin Bridge from the Oxford Dendrochronology Laboratory. Working in partnership with the Royal Commission, Dating Old Welsh Houses is a community-based history project focused on dating historic houses in the counties of North-west Wales and then compiling their house histories. In the last three years over sixty houses have been successfully dated by the partnership project and revealed some remarkable results. Contrary to the traditional view that North Wales was an architectural backwater in terms of houses, the results of the project show that the characteristic Snowdonian house took shape in the early sixteenth-century much earlier than previously believed. The work of this project was featured on Wednesday, 25 January by BBC Radio Wales on the Roy Noble programme by their community-reporter, Huw Jenkins. This interview will now be available for the next week on the BBC iPlayer. To learn more about the work of the partnership project, click on the link http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/console/b019m7bm and fast-forward to 1 hour and 48 minutes into the programme. Many of the results are already available in the National Monuments Record and on Coflein.
PLAS TIRION
Coflein - Discovering Our Past Online
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Cadw Chapels Collection - Newly Catalogued
Bethania Welsh Baptist Chapel, Bethania Road, MaestegCadw Chapels Collection: Ref. No. CCC02
This group comprises a set of 53 measured drawings of chapels in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, copied by Cadw for its Chapels project. The original drawings were made by students of the Welsh School of architecture (WSA): with whom copyright resides.
Covering dates: 1979
Bethania Welsh Baptist Chapel, Bethania Road, Maesteg:
Coflein - Discovering Our Past Online
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This group comprises a set of 53 measured drawings of chapels in Merthyr Tydfil, Glamorgan, copied by Cadw for its Chapels project. The original drawings were made by students of the Welsh School of architecture (WSA): with whom copyright resides.
Covering dates: 1979
Bethania Welsh Baptist Chapel, Bethania Road, Maesteg:
Coflein - Discovering Our Past Online
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Survey of Pembrokeshire Slate Quarries
The Rosebush and Bellstone slate quarries from the air. The buildings being surveyed are visible alongside the road running right to left across the picture.
Catalogue Number C422589 Image DI2006_1692
Investigators Sue Fielding and Spencer Smith have been undertaking survey work at the Rosebush and Bellstone Slate quarries, near the village of Rosebush, Pembrokeshire. Working in conjunction with the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and the quarry owner, the surviving buildings and structures are being recorded in order to monitor their condition. As well as providing an important resource for the National Park staff to aid them in the conservation of the site, the work will also feature in a book on the Archaeology of the Slate Industry of Wales being produced by the Royal Commission.
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Catalogue Number C422589 Image DI2006_1692
Investigators Sue Fielding and Spencer Smith have been undertaking survey work at the Rosebush and Bellstone Slate quarries, near the village of Rosebush, Pembrokeshire. Working in conjunction with the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park and the quarry owner, the surviving buildings and structures are being recorded in order to monitor their condition. As well as providing an important resource for the National Park staff to aid them in the conservation of the site, the work will also feature in a book on the Archaeology of the Slate Industry of Wales being produced by the Royal Commission.
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Terry James Aerial Photographic Collection - Newly Catalogued
Terry James Aerial Photographic Collection: Ref. No. TJA
10 files of black and white negatives, and contact sheets, relating to aerial photographs taken by Terry James, Dyfed Archaeological Trust, of sites in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.
The archive is catalogued by site for single site surveys, or by photograph date for more mixed view groups.
Covering dates: 1978-1986
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10 files of black and white negatives, and contact sheets, relating to aerial photographs taken by Terry James, Dyfed Archaeological Trust, of sites in Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire.
The archive is catalogued by site for single site surveys, or by photograph date for more mixed view groups.
Covering dates: 1978-1986
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Sign Up - Friends of the Royal Commission New On-line Form
Friends of the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales.
Friends of the Royal Commission on-line form
Joining the Friends of the Royal Commission just got easier with an on-line form.
Please sign up or forward the information to any friends who may be interested in joining.
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The Friends of the Royal Commission
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Friends of the Royal Commission on-line form
Joining the Friends of the Royal Commission just got easier with an on-line form.
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The Friends of the Royal Commission
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Welsh Development Agency Aerofilms - Newly Catalogued Collection
Welsh Development Agency Aerofilms: Ref. No. AFW01
Part of the Aerofilms Collection
34 files of colour prints of aerial photographs of South Wales, commissioned by the Welsh Development Agency.
Covering dates: 2005
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Part of the Aerofilms Collection
34 files of colour prints of aerial photographs of South Wales, commissioned by the Welsh Development Agency.
Covering dates: 2005
Further reading:
- Aerofilms Collection Project News | Heritage of Wales News 11 Dec 2009
The Aerofilms Collection contains lots of early aerial photographs of Britian. Many of these historic images are facinating and I'm looking forward to creating some great web pages using the images to compare places in Wales ...
- Earliest Oblique Aerial Photographs Conservation | Heritage of ... 14 Oct 2010
Acquired for the nation in 2007, the Aerofilms Collection of over 1 million photographs dates from 1919 to 2006 and presents an unparalleled picture of the changing face of Britain in the twentieth century. The four-year ...
- Aerofilms Historic Aerial Photography Collection | Heritage of Wales ... 24 Aug 2010
We are developing a project with English Heritage and RCAHMS to make the Aerofilms Collection of aerial photography accessible by conserving it, cataloguing it and putting the images online. If you would you like to be kept ...
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Stephen Hughes Slide Collection - Newly Catalogued Collection
Stephen Hughes Slide Collection: Ref. No. SHS
8 files of colour slides of various copper-mills and related buildings: mainly in Swansea, but also in Bristol and Berkshire.
Covering dates: 1995-2002
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8 files of colour slides of various copper-mills and related buildings: mainly in Swansea, but also in Bristol and Berkshire.
Covering dates: 1995-2002
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J.C. Young Pembrokeshire Standing Stones - Newly Catalogued Collection
J.C. Young Pembrokeshire Standing Stones: Ref. No. JYP
53 digital copies of a collection of original oil paintings of standing stones in Pembrokeshire.
Covering dates: 1981-1984
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53 digital copies of a collection of original oil paintings of standing stones in Pembrokeshire.
Covering dates: 1981-1984
Further reading:
- Peintiadau Meini Hirion Sir Penfro J.C. Young | Heritage of Wales ... Crewyd y casgliad o beintiadau sy'n cofnodi meini hirion Sir Benfro gan yr arlunydd J. C. Young dros gyfnod o dair blynedd rhwng 1981 a 1984, gan ddefnyddio rhestr o safleoedd a gyhoeddwyd yn Pembrokeshire Historian ...
- J.C. Young Pembrokeshire Standing Stones Paintings | Heritage of ... The collection of paintings recording the standing stones of Pembrokeshire was created by artist J.C. Young over a three year period from 1981 to 1984, using a list of sites published in the Pembrokeshire Historian in ...
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Douglas Hogg Slide Collection - Newly Catalogued Collection
Douglas Hogg Slide Collection: Ref. No. DHS
19 boxes of 25mm colour slides of buildings, views, etc. in Wales, taken by Douglas Hogg in his role as Chief Architect at Cadw.
Covering dates: 1990-1993
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19 boxes of 25mm colour slides of buildings, views, etc. in Wales, taken by Douglas Hogg in his role as Chief Architect at Cadw.
Covering dates: 1990-1993
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Oriau Agor y Llyfrgell: Nadolig 2011 a’r Flwyddyn Newydd
Bydd y llyfrgell a’r ystafell chwilio ar gau, a chaiff y gwasanaeth ymholiadau ei atal, o ddydd Gwener 23 Rhagfyr tan ddydd Mawrth 3 Ionawr. Ni chaiff ymholiadau ac archebion a ddaw i law yn ystod y cyfnod hwnnw mo’u cydnabod na’u trin tan i ni ailagor ar 3 Ionawr 2012. Mae’n flin gennym am unrhyw anghyfleustra y gall hyn ei achosi.
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Library Opening Hours: Christmas 2011 and New Year
The library and search room will be closed and the enquiry service suspended from Friday 23 December until Tuesday 3 January. Enquiries and orders received during this period will not be acknowledged or dealt with until we reopen on 3 January 2012.
We are sorry for any inconvenience this may cause.
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St Tudwals Excavation - Newly Catalogued Collection
Slide of RCAHMW colour oblique aerial photograph of St Tudwalis' Head, taken by C.R. Musson, 9/5/1989.
Crown Copyright: RCAHMW: GTJ25636 NPRN: 33027
This collection represents material relating to excavation and post-excavation work relating to the Royal Commission's excavations on St Tudwal's East Island.
This comprises: field notes, maps and plans, finds material; historical and comparative material, provisional reports; black and white photographs and negatives; and administrative and personnel records.
The archive is divided into seven groups: field notes, historical and comparative material, provisional reports, and small maps and plans (STE01); finds material (STE02); black and white photographs and negatives (STE03); larger photographs (STE04); larger maps, section plans and drawings (STE05); administrative records (STE06); and restricted access recruitment and personnel files (STE07).
Covering dates: 1957-1985
Coflein - Discovering Our Past Online
Coflein is the online database for the National Monuments Record of Wales (NMRW), the national collection of information about the historic environment of Wales.
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Crown Copyright: RCAHMW: GTJ25636 NPRN: 33027
This collection represents material relating to excavation and post-excavation work relating to the Royal Commission's excavations on St Tudwal's East Island.
This comprises: field notes, maps and plans, finds material; historical and comparative material, provisional reports; black and white photographs and negatives; and administrative and personnel records.
The archive is divided into seven groups: field notes, historical and comparative material, provisional reports, and small maps and plans (STE01); finds material (STE02); black and white photographs and negatives (STE03); larger photographs (STE04); larger maps, section plans and drawings (STE05); administrative records (STE06); and restricted access recruitment and personnel files (STE07).
Covering dates: 1957-1985
Coflein - Discovering Our Past Online
Coflein is the online database for the National Monuments Record of Wales (NMRW), the national collection of information about the historic environment of Wales.
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Recent Work On Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire
Skomer Island, located off the south-western coast of Pembrokeshire, is a National Nature Reserve, a Marine Nature Reserve and a Scheduled Ancient Monument, famed for its bird life and puffins, and its relict prehistoric agricultural landscape is among the best preserved anywhere in the British Isles.
Two major archaeological surveys have examined the island in the twentieth century, in the 1940s and 1980s. The first was by Professor W.F. Grimes who produced an archaeological map, based on a transcription from a set of Ordnance Survey aerial photographs, checked and augmented by detailed survey on the ground. Forty years later Professor J.G. Evans complemented and built upon this earlier work by recording in detail small enclosures and habitation sites from ground survey. He also expanded the archaeological map from transcription of vertical aerial photographs supplied by Cambridge University and oblique aerial photographs taken by Terry James, then of the Dyfed Archaeological Trust. Evans argued for a simple prehistory of Skomer since in his opinion the fields and farms showed little complexity and may have been built, settled and entirely abandoned in no more than a century.
However, aerial survey in March 2008 by Toby Driver of the Royal Commission in low light, and with compacted vegetation after a heavy frost, yielded a new collection of images that revealed discrepancies with the mapped detail. Mapped field shapes were generalised, altered, wrongly depicted or had details ‘smoothed out’ when compared to the new aerial images. In other places the excellent conditions in which the new photographs had been taken picked out extremely denuded lynchets and boundaries showing clear phasing among overlapping field systems. This suggested a more complex history of the island and provided the stimulus for new fieldwork and survey by the Royal Commission to examine the archaeology and historic land-use of Skomer.
Field systems in the south of Skomer show up spectacularly in low light during March 2008.Crown Copyright: RCAHMW: AP_2008_0306
New survey and fieldwork
Skomer has no large grazing animals and so the vegetation is dominated by coarse tussocky grass. A field visit in August 2010 revealed that this formed a kind of fescue mattress effectively obscuring much of the archaeology and making it difficult to map features from aerial photographs. Therefore, in February 2011 the Royal Commission commissioned a LiDAR survey of the island in order to identify the full extent of the surviving earthworks. Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) is a method of remote sensing that obtains three-dimensional data points by using an airborne laser, mounted on an aircraft.
The LiDAR sensor is mounted below an aircraft where it emits short infrared laser pulses towards the earth’s surface, fan-shaped across the flight path. Each pulse will result in multiple echoes or ‘returns’. The first return will usually be received from the tops of trees and vegetation, but as the laser penetrates the canopy, further returns are received from branches and understorey. Typically, the last return is received from the ground surface. As the aeroplane moves forward the position of each return, or point, can be calculated using a satellite navigation system, while the pitch, roll and yaw of the aircraft is recorded by an inertial measurement unit to increase accuracy. Each point therefore has a set of x, y, and z coordinates to reflect its position and elevation. These points can then be processed to create a highly detailed terrain model of the ground surface.
Digital surface model generated LiDAR image of Skomer (top) and interpretation (bottom). Copyright Reserved, Environment Agency Geomatics Group; hillshade DSM view generated by RCAHMW. Map based upon Ordnance Survey mapping: Crown Copyright and database right 2009. All rights reserved. Ordnance Survey Licence number 100022206
The results of the survey have been staggering, revealing hitherto unknown complexity to the field systems and clear phasing of boundaries, particularly within the interior of the island . A first season of fieldwork in April 2011 began the process of ground-truthing these new discoveries, but also undertaking a more nuanced ground survey of the surviving remains. A typological study for the settlement in the north of the island confirmed that Skomer’s field systems are complex and long-lived. The variety of boundary types is notable and there are many subdivisions. The low banks of stone and earth have many different forms and characteristics, and individual boundaries do not have a consistent character throughout their length. What appears to be a single coherent boundary from the air may on the ground comprise a composite of varying build and type, and suggests a succession of phases of expansion, contraction and abandonment.
Skomer has only one prominent megalithic monument, the Harold Stone, which is a 1.7 m high monolith of local stone sited towards the eastern edge of a block of fields, looking out over the maritime approaches to the island. Aside from the Harold Stone, a variety of less obvious monuments of potential Early Bronze Age date are recorded on Skomer. These include the barrow near the Wick along with a considerable number of cairns. In re-visiting some of these cairn cemeteries, and during the re-survey of other settlement areas, the recent survey showed new evidence for megalithic structures of Neolithic or Early Bronze Age date. Among these are at least three unrecorded standing stone pairs, clearly identifiable as unusual paired stones in isolation, or incorporated in later boundaries with stone in-filling, precluding their use as gateposts. A further possible stone pair is closely associated with an earthfast natural slab, prominent on the skyline on the north-eastern part of Skomer Island (SM 7266 0998). There is the strong likelihood that this represents a megalithic or sub-megalithic monument and it lies just to the north of a cluster of cairns.
Probable megalithic site on northeast Skomer, with two orthostats found in close association with a large, earthfast rectangular slab of natural origin, seen from the south. The twin orthostats break the skyline when seen from all southern approaches and look out across St Brides Bay to the peaks of St Davids Head in the north .Crown Copyright: RCAHMW: DS2011_448_001
Future work
Further ground survey is planned for 2012 to complete the typological study of the island’s field systems and investigate the megalithic site in more detail. Skomer still has many archaeological secrets to be revealed!
Further reading:
- Royal Commission films with Ray Mears on Skomer Island ... As part of the Skomer Island project, where the Royal Commission is working with partners to map and understand the well-preserved prehistoric houses and fields, we were invited to film with Ray Mears for his new television ...
- Skomer Island Preserved Remains Of A Prehistoric Settlement ... Ynys Sgomer – Tŷ cynhanesyddol ac iddo waliau cerrig. Cwt rhif 20 yw'r enw arno. Skomer Island - Prehistoric stone-walled house, known as hut number 20. (Image/Llun: DS2010_550_005 / NPRN: 24369) ...
- The Archaeology of Skomer Island | Heritage of Wales News Royal Commission investigators Louise and Toby, have just been on a visit to Skomer Island situated off the coast of Pembrokeshire. This wonderful place is principally famed for its wildlife, however, its archaeology is equally ...
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