4th August - rain

Today rain stopped play. Despite it being one of the better attended days, it was considered too wet to go to the intended upland area.
The decision was taken to take the opportunity to visit a number of local archaeological sites.
The first stop was Llangors crannog and the crannog centre. We moved on to look at Talyllyn House at Ty Mawr, Llangasty. Many
thanks to Nigel Gervase of Calch Ty Mawr and his staff for showing us around. at this point we bid farewell to Dario and Jemma. The rest of the party continued on to Blaenllynfi Castle before returning to Llangynidr. After lunch an even more diminished number did a quick circuit of the Fwddog hill fort above Llangattock.
Attending today - Jemma, Dario, Jan, Rosie, Janet, Connor, Ed.

3rd August - day 3 Clog Fawr

This morning we headed for Clog Fawr again. We identified three groups of buildings found on the 1587 maps. This was not entirely easy as the detail had changed by the time the tithe map was drawn in 1840. It is noticeable that the field systems in this part of the valley have not extended so much upslope to the east. This is probably due to the narrowness of the land between the road and the fairly extreme steeper wooded enclosures.
After lunch we walked up Cwm Pyrgad and around part of the Brinore tram road, descending the steep cliff above the Dyffryn Crawnon nature reserve. We returned past Cefn Crieg.
Team for today, Jemma, Dario, Richard, Connor, Ed & Jan. We were joined by Charlene at the usual watering hole debrief.

2nd August 2011 - day 2

Today found us visiting Clog Fawr. This area is on the south west side of the valley and was missed in 2009.

It proved good practising ground for those who had not done this kind of work before.

Todays crew - Jemma, Dario, Connor, Ed, Kerry, Margaret, Richard and Jan (some of the time).

Lets start from the very beginning

The beginning was in 2009. Over a three week period members of Llangynidr Local History Society "found" 80 new sites of archaeological and historical interest in the Dyffryn Crawnon, a beautiful agricultural valley on south Powys.

This year the survey is 14 continuous days starting on 1st August until 14th. The project is lead by Dr Jemma Bezant of Trinity Saint David University, Lampeter.

Day one found members in their natural habitat....The Red Lion Tavern, Llangynidr enjoying coffee and a disussion about the work ahead this year. Thank you to Aidy and Sarah for allowing use of the dining room for the meeting.