Trench 14 is continuing to suprise us, with more rock-art and other suprises, so time for an update

Experimental archaeology

This year I am going to attempt to put into practice some of the tricks that we learnt on the Grundtvig Malta trip by using Google Blogger to keep a “live” online diary of the Summer 2010 dig. You can access it at any time by clicking on this link.

Last week, volunteers from Caer Alyn played the part of an iron-age family for an educational dvd for a schools information pack on the iron-age. Whilst waiting for the film crew to arrive, Phil Cox (our own "director" tcarried out his own photo shoot!

Phil brings home the new recruits

Latest News from Caer Alyn CAER ALYN ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROJECT - Wrexham SUMMER DIG 2010 Book now for the 7th August – 21st August 2010 Join the Caer Alyn team in excavating a potential prehistoric enclosure at the southern entrance to the Bryn Alyn hillfort In 2008, Dr Meggen Gondek, University of Chester, completed a geophysical survey of the interior of the hillfort and an area just outside the southern entrance to the Bryn Hill fort, the results of which indicated that there are possible features in both areas.

On Saturday we completed the interim alalysis and recording of all the finds from trench 14. The attached document shows what trench 14 looks like, who the "finds" team are, gives some statistics and also shows some photographs of some of the special finds.

Weekend dig 26th September 2009

In mid march, members of Caer Alyn visited Caer Alyn for a weekend of Rock Art hunting on Barningham Moor, North Yorkshire. The accomodation was good, the rock art was fantastic, the pub was............."interesting" and the company wonderul. Two versions of the weekends events are attached, one by myself and a more entertaining one by Beverly.

The Bronze Age by Annabelle Rogers The Iron Age by Annabelle Rogers BA