Author Archives: ollydavis

Last Saturday was the Ely Festival – read CHP’s Louise’s blog about what we got up to… Last Saturday I was lucky enough to have the opportunity to represent CAER heritage at the amazing Ely Festival alongside Dave, Mel, and Alex. Digging Caerau is not just about a bunch of archaeologists excavating a hillfort, engagingContinue reading “CAER Heritage at Ely Festival”

From 30th June to 25th July we’ll be digging again at Caerau Hillfort – read on to find out what we’re going to be searching for and how you can get involved! More than 1,000 people visited the excavations in 2013 and 120 were directly involved in the digging. We opened three trenches within theContinue reading “New dig at Caerau Hillfort – Getting excited yet?!”

For the last three weeks CHP’s Olly Davis, with a lot of help from Julia Best, Paul Kemble and other CAER volunteers, has been wet sieving the soil samples taken from Caerau during the summer’s excavations. Read the latest blog to find out what they discovered…and how cold they’ve been! All the artefacts we recoverContinue reading “Sieving Caerau’s Finds!”

Remember back in July, when the weather was hot and sunny and the excavations up at Caerau Hillfort were in full swing? One Monday afternoon back then we had a visitor to the site who had driven all the way from Yorkshire to see how we were getting on. The visitor in question was Penny,Continue reading “From Caerau to Wincobank – the Silures meet the Brigantes!”

I had a good time around London visiting historical places of interest.  One on my highlights was climbing the Monument all 311 steps but the view from the top was truly breathtaking. I even had a certificate to say that I climbed it which was really good. Here is a bit of history about theContinue reading “Jeff’s blog 7th August 2013 – My Visit to London”

Enclosing an area the size of almost 8 football pitches, Caerau Hillfort is by far the largest hillfort in south Glamorgan, yet it has never before been researched.  In fact, we know very little about hillforts in this region at all – even basic questions like how the settlements were organised inside, how long theyContinue reading “New discoveries at Caerau Hillfort”

Read a blog from Sheffield resident Penny, who also lives near an ‘urban’ hillfort like Caerau… Wow! I’ve been following you all on Facebook and reading the brilliant blog.  In the end I just couldn’t stay away so I packed my camera and my notebook, jumped in my little black car and drove all theContinue reading “From Wincobank to Caerau – with love”

Read Paul’s blog about the CAER Project and digging Caerau… Normally, I ascend Caerau hillfort by a slightly different route each time.  By avoiding the road I can then see how the hill’s biodiversity is progressing through the seasons and then, hopefully, making more sense of the hill’s overall shape and physical features.  Sometimes reachingContinue reading “Paul’s experiences at Caerau Hillfort”

CHP’s Mel bogs about engaging the public at Caerau Hillfort… I’m Mel, a Medievalist and historian, so being out in the fresh air is an exciting novelty for me! Unfortunately with work as well I’m not able to get up to the site more than once or twice a week, but while I’ve been upContinue reading “Engaging the Public at Caerau”

CHP’s Dave blogs about his experiences while digging Caerau… At Saturday’s big CAER project Iron Age Hog Roast I got chatting to a local resident who had lived at the bottom of Caerau hillfort all his life, I’d say he was in his 40s. At first I wasn’t sure that he was that interested inContinue reading “CAER Hog Roast Blog”