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Mark and his 20 foot box wagon collecting the timber. | .....And this is the geophysics of BOB. | A compressed clay surface & postholes were discovered by the CAYA members during excavations in June. Here you see older archaeologists clearing back and tidying up their trench a little. | A compressed clay surface & postholes were discovered by the CAYA members during excavations in June. Here you see older archaeologists clearing back and tidying up their trench a little. |
A compressed clay surface & postholes were discovered by the CAYA members during excavations in June. Here you see older archaeologists clearing back and tidying up their trench a little. | A fort with a view, by Big Dave Forster | A local company has donated funds to help us continue the work of Caer Alyn - The Golden Lion, Rossett | a moonlit night |
A tour of the Caer Alyn site | AGM ...who will you vote for ? | Alan at work | Alan Brown in front of the Round House. |
Alan's experimental archaeology | All loaded up | Almost home. Peter at the end of a very long drive | Almost there |
and the band played on ... | Andy - Archaeology Graduate | Archaeology | Archies brother ?? |
At the base of Moel fenlli looking over the Vale of Clwyd | back filling | back filling | belt and braces |
Bert and His Forklift | Bert loads up | Bringing home lunch | Broken Flags Underneath Cobbled Surface |
Bryn Alyn Hillfort - Model by Neil Stevens - volunteer Caer Alyn | Cairn at the top of Moel fenlli | CAYA archaeologists hard at work | CAYA members |
CAYA members cleaning and recording the finds from the previous months fieldwalking exercise. | CAYA t- shirt logo | Charity No: 287815 : Company No: 1760254 | Chasing the archaeological rainbow |
Classical Archaeology | Cleaning up the finds from the previous meetings fieldwalking. | Clwyd Valley | cohort photo |
Collection of Finds - Trench 1 Oct 09 | Conservation, Wildlife and the Environment. | Conservation, Wildlife and the Environment. | Constructing fire chamber dome |
Dave and John showing the members part of BOB. | Dave D & Sara hard at work | Day 2, the stone blocks revealed | Day 3 |
Day 4, following the stones | Day 6 | Day 7, is this a trowel or a spade | Day One, start to clean up the trench |
Detector finds | Different designs | Distinguished Guests at Caer Alyn | ditch |
Ditch 1m deep | Ditch III | Ditch when damp | Drawing the finds from the previous meetings fieldwalking. |
Drawing the finds from the previous meetings fieldwalking. | due reverence required | Elevation proflile of North East Wales | euro dummy |
Evening Leader 21 Nov 2007 | Faience | father Christmas & his helper would like to wish you all a very happy Christmas and New Year | Features in the soil are explained by the archaeologists on hand. |
Fire pit and stock hole | First wall posts go in | Frame work completed | Full Ditch |
Geophysical survey of the Fort (North is left) | gis project launch | Grid 3 Bottom section | grid 3 Middle section |
Grid 3 Top section | Grid 4 | Grids 1 & 5 | Grids 2&6 |
Grids 3 & 7 | Helen and Caitlin. | Hillfort lumps and bumps | how did they invent the wheel? |
i was there | ice age ....... | inner rampart | Inside the kiln |
Inside the Round House. | is that a phone i can hear ringing?? | isn't U2 a band? | its all in the detail |
its all in the interpretation | its F3 | Kiln completed | Kiln Floor |
Kiln Plan | Ladybirds hiding place. | Learning basic excavation skills by hands on activities. | Left to Right, Claire Hughes, Education Officer and Heather Butler, Community Officer - CAAHP - with Pat Reeson, Chair of the Caer Alyn Project. |
Llai Open Day 2006 | look its charlie chaplin !! | Mathew cuts the ribbon | Meet Archie the Archie-ologist!! |
Metal detector finds | Metal detector finds | Neil and John working hard | New CAYA logo designed by Jamie, one of our senior CAYA members |
New CAYA members welcomed by Karen Morrell and Alan Brown. Open Day 2007 | New features revealed | New Shirts??? | not much heat loss through this roof |
ok,if its for the good of the project,i'll pose | Open Day 2007 | Open Day 2008 presentation to MPs | or .... archaeologists recreate ancient shrine |
or very, very busy......... | overlay mapping is easier with lidar !! | Phil explaining the Hillfort ramparts. | Phil helping out our younger members |
Poss edge of inner rampart | Pot making | Pottery | Pottery Finds |
professional at work...... | Raided Nest | Rectangular feature in grid 1 | Roman Centurian |
Roman Shrine - Gresford Church | Round house under construction - January 2007. Stage one complete | Roundhouse "getting there" | Roundhouse phase 3 |
Saying farewell to one of the local residents | Setting out the trench on day one | Shoe designs | sieving back fill |
Some of the digging team | Sondage at start of excavation. | Thatching well under way | The "enignmatic boulder" being excavated |
The "Pendant" | The CAYA Team | The Collaspe | The cut |
The dig progressing, a view looking west | The Dig, revetment stones lying upon natural ? | The ditch | The elusive ditch |
The finds rooom girls! | The first day of the dig | The Font - Gresford Church. St Leonard is depicted to the left of the griffin. | The make up of the revetment stones |
The omen! | The Poss cobbled surface | The students | The top of boxed wall |
The top of revetted wall | The trench almost finished | The WASHE group | Today (2) 31st March 2007 |
Today (3) 31st March 2007 | Today at the roundhouse - 31st March 2007 | Tom Jones explains the workings of the mill | Tony discovers an iron age barrow |
Tony Hanna, far right, congratulated on his work by a visitor to the open day. | tony surveys the slope | Trench 1 - The Wilderness | trench 14 from the air |
Trench 14 from the air .... | Trench 15 digging team | up on the roof .... | View towards West Door - Gresford Church |
Visitor stats for 2007 (up to February) | We got there at last 5pm | We were due to move in today !!!!!! | week 3 team photo |
Well it was there!!! | What is this? | What they believed (Capel Garmon) | Where are we? |
Where's my cake, Karen? | whos on the fundraising committee ? | Working on Trench 14 | Wrexham Evening Leader 21st Nov 2007 |
Wrexham Evening Leader 26 Jan 2007 | Wrexham Science Festival Presentation | Young Archaeologists Canine Division |
