Introducing a Research Framework for the Archaeology of Wales

 

 

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The Palaeolithic and Mesolithic (250,000 BC - 4,000 BC)
Research Framework
Key Sites
Bibliography

The Neolithic and Early Bronze Age (4,000 BC - 1,500 BC)
Research Framework
Key Sites
Bibliography

Later Bronze Age and Iron Age (1500 BC – AD 43)
Research Framework
Key Sites
Bibliography

Roman (AD 43 – AD 410)
Research Framework
Key Sites
Bibliography

Early Medieval (410 – 1100)
Research Framework
Key Sites
Bibliography

Medieval (1100 - 1539)
Research Framework
Key Sites
Bibliography

Post-Medieval (1539 – 1750)
Research Framework
Key Sites
Bibliography

Industrial and Modern Period (1750 – present)
Research Framework
Key Sites
Bibliography

Maritime and Coastal

Research Framework
Key Sites

The Palaeoenvironment

Research Framework

 

 

 

 

Excavation on Burry Holms, Gower, Swansea, investigating an early Mesolithic settlement site beneath a later prehistoric roundhouse. ©National Museum of Wales

Excavation on Burry Holms, Gower, Swansea, investigating an early Mesolithic settlement site beneath a later prehistoric roundhouse.
©National Museum of Wales

 

 

 

Silver penannnular brooch decorated with blue glass beads, gold foil and gold filigree; eighth or ninth century AD. Found at Newton Moor, Vale of Glamorgan. ©National Museum of Wales

Silver penannnular brooch decorated with blue glass beads, gold foil and gold filigree; eighth or ninth century AD. Found at Newton Moor, Vale of Glamorgan.
©National Museum of Wales

 

 

 

 

Stack Square cottages which stand adjacent to the ironworks that form part of the Blaenavon World Heritage site. ©Cadw, Welsh Assembly Government (Crown Copyright)

Stack Square cottages which stand adjacent to the ironworks that form part of the Blaenavon World Heritage site.
©Cadw, Welsh Assembly Government (Crown Copyright)

 

 

 

 

The Fifteenth-century Newport ship during excavation in 2002. ©Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust

The Fifteenth-century Newport ship during excavation in 2002.
©Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust