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Old News from CPAT


Welcome to our Old News page. Hopefully not as dull as it sounds, this is where to find some of the news stories that we have carried since we started the CPAT web site back in 1999. The stories are listed in date order (newest to oldest) and to help you get started there is a year by year index down the left hand side. Now read on . . .


Stories from 2008

Developing links with Brecknock Museum

October 2008

A View from the Breiddin

October 2008

More excavations at Llanelwedd

October 2008

Pillboxes in the Elan Valley

September 2008

Penycloddiau hillfort invaded!

September 2008

Hyssington Dig Diary starts today

September 2008

CPAT buys a hillfort . . . .

September 2008

Healthy numbers at Trefnanny!

September 2008

5000 years of history in the Walton Basin

August 2008

Talk gets the thumbs up!

August 2008

Yet another Roman Invasion

August 2008

The Romans march north (again)

August 2008

Top finds in August from Wrexham Heritage Society

August 2008

Weather and Hillforts - Penycloddiau with the University of the Third Age

July 2008

National Archaeology Week 2008
CPAT at Loggerheads Country Park

July 2008

Being a local tourist in Welshpool

July 2008

Historic Forests in Leeds

July 2008

The Romans march north

July 2008

Tea, photographs and archaeology at Carno

July 2008

Llanelwedd Bronze Age burial cairn

June 2008

CPAT at Leicester Deserted Villages Conference

June 2008

Neolithic Settlement found at Borras

June 2008

Medieval farms and farming in the Elan Valley

June 2008

CPAT at Bryn Euryn Local Nature Reserve Open Day

June 2008

The Romans are coming!

June 2008

Recent work in southern Powys

May 2008

Open day in Machynlleth

May 2008

Vale Vintage Ports . . . . . and Mustard?

May 2008

Heather and Hillforts at Penycloddiau

May 2008

That Tommy Steele's let himself go . . . Flash, Bang, Wallop What a picture, more from the Wrexham Heritage Society


May 2008

Wrexham Area Civic Society talk, more secrets of Rhydymwyn

March 2008

Historic Forests in an Oxford College

March 2008

130 at Third Age lecture

March 2008

Sending out a message . . . . . talking to the Powys Amateur Radio Club

February 2008

The upland archaeology of Mynydd Hiraethog at the Denbighshire Historical Society

February 2008

Banks and Ditches of the Borderland

February 2008

Powis Castle's guides start the year with a day out

January 2008

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Stories from 2007

Montgomeryshire Age Concern

November 2007

Friends of Wrexham Museum

November 2007

Audience fired up by historic lecture!

November 2007

Excavations at Llanelwedd

November 2007

Offa's Dyke dig sparks school interest

November 2007

Iolo Speaks Out - about the Caersws Virtual Reality model

November 2007

Meifod Local History Society, again!

October 2007

Wrexham Heritage Society

October 2007

CPAT and BBC Radio Cymru at Bryn Euryn

October 2007

Meifod Local History Society

September 2007

Ruralia Conference 2007

September 2007

Excavation and survey at the Meusydd Henge Complex, Llanrhaeadr-ym-Mochnant

August 2007

Mold Gold - the National Eisteddfod 2007

August 2007

National Archaeology Week 2007

July 2007

Border County Archaeology tour Welshpool

July 2007

Medieval Settlement Research Group Conference

July 2007

St. Asaph Archaeology Society

April 2007

BBC Countryfile and CPAT at Pennant Melangell

February 2007

Flintshire Historical Society - Rhydymwym

January 2007

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Stories from 2006

The History and Archaeology of Machynlleth

November 2006

Friends of Montgomery Canal ‘Walk & Talk’ - Llanymynech Heritage Area

October 2006

Its Wednesday so it must be Sarn

October 2006

Historic Landscape Walks in the Elan Valley

August 2006

Excavations at Dyffryn Lane Henge Complex

August 2006

National Archaeology Day, 2006

July 2006

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Stories from 2005

National Archaeology Day, 2005

August 2005

Short Dykes in Mid and North-East Wales

January 2005

The Metal Mining Landscapes of Mid and North-East Wales

January 2005

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Stories from 2004

Review of Offa's Dyke - History & Guide

December 2004

Tir Gofal - Five Years on

November 2004

Medieval Hay-on-Wye revealed in excavations

November 2004

National Archaeology Day 2004

August 2004

The House Under the Water

February 2004

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Stories from 2003

Excavations at Arddleen Romano-British Enclosure

August 2003

Montgomery Canal Survey

July 2003

Y Graig, Abergavenny

June 2003

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Stories from 2002

Resurrection of a medieval house in Llanarmon Mynydd Mawr

December 2002

Plas Newydd and the Ladies of Llangollen

May 2002

Clive engine house

May 2002

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Stories from 2001

CPAT SMR goes on-line

January 2001

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Stories from 2000

Caring for Medieval Church Archaeology booklet launched

November 2000

Recent work at Pont Faen Mill, Brecon

October 2000

CPAT cited in 'Building of the Year Award'

October 2000

Survey of Montgomeryshire Wildlife Trust Reserves by CPAT

September 2000

European Union funded survey project at Hindwell, Powys

September 2000

Excavations at Trannon Moor, Carno, Powys

July 2000

New book claims that Offa's Dyke is Roman!

April 2000

yeah okay this is a bit of the Gortyn Law Code, a Doric Greek inscription from 5th century BC, but I haven't got a decent photo of the Welshpool one . . . 18th Century Inscribed Stone found in Welshpool

March 2000

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