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On 9th June 2016 CAER Heritage Project lead artist Paul Evans and film maker Jon Harrison led the first of two Model Village creative workshops at The Glamorgan Archives with students from Michaelston Community School. This was the first stage in the creation of The Model Village film for the Connected Communities Utopia Festival at SomersetContinue reading “The Model Village :: Part 1”

Caer Heritage Project artist Paul Evans has been busy recently, completing work on our Romanobritish table tennis tables or ‘Ping Pong Portals to the Past’. Paul used a carefully chosen selection from dozens of designs created during three days of intensive artistic workshops with students from Woodlands and Glyn Derw High Schools – see the following linksContinue reading “Romanobritish :: Ping Pong Portals to the Past”

The third and final Romanobritish workshop, which took place at Glyn Derw High School in late October 2015, was all about focussing on the output of the Romanobritish project – a design for our ‘Ping Pong Portal to the Past’. We began the day with the enjoyable but challenging task of creating a cartoon ‘RomansContinue reading “RomanoBritish :: Session III”

  Day two of the RomanoBritish project was once again packed full of creativity. After a review of last week’s activities we warmed up with a customised version of the surrealist parlour game Exquisite Corpse. Although this has a rather alarming title, it’s actually a very simple, fun and creative drawing game involving paper folds.Continue reading “RomanoBritish :: Session II”

Romanobritish is a new project that is being run in partnership between Woodlands School, Glyn Derw High School, Caer Heritage Project lead artist Paul Evans and Dr David Wyatt from Caer Heritage Project. The aim of the Romanobritish is to co-produce designs for playing surfaces of two table tennis tables that will be permanently sited withinContinue reading “RomanoBritish :: Session I”

A blog by Exploring the Past student and volunteer Midnight On Monday 6th July I returned to the archaeological dig at Caerau Hillfort for the third year in a row. Together with my trusty support worker, and with trowel in hand, I was rearing to go. Unlike previous years where the weather has been bakingContinue reading “The Caerau Hillfort Dig 2015”

Here’s your chance to flex your archaeological muscles! Take a look at the amazing results from the latest geophysical survey inside and around the Caerau Ringwork by the CAER team and local volunteers and let us know what you think you can see. How to Enter? It’s easy! Take a good look at the twoContinue reading “The BIG CAER Geophysics competition!”

Have you ever thought about building a house…not just any house…but an Iron Age roundhouse!? The thought never came to my mind, until I saw a poster next to Dr Olly Davis’s office at the University. St Fagans National History Museum needed the assistance of CAER Heritage Project volunteers to help out and test ourContinue reading “Raising the Roof: How to Build a Roundhouse”

Tread softly, don’t forget, we do this for you. Love, Your Ancestors On Wednesday 3rd December Paul Evans and Jeff Trask created this unusual encounter for the NCCPE Engage Conference in Bristol. Dressed as characters from the past and from the future (Jeff wore a medieval costume, the identity of the future postman remains something of a mystery), ourContinue reading “Postcards from the Past | Postcards to the Future”