Awst 2012
Lluniau Llon! Sesiynau Ffotograffiaeth Bywyd Gwyllt @AGC
Dros y pythefnos diwethaf rydym ni wedi bod yn rhedeg gweithgareddau ar gyfer teuluoedd i'w wneud ag arddangosfa Ffotograffydd Bywyd Gwyllt y Flwyddyn Veolia yma yn Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd.
Wnaeth dros 400 ohonoch chi gymryd rhan ac mai hi wedi bod yn bythefnos bendigedig o anturiaethau ffotograffig! Rydw i wedi bod yn brysur yn llwytho siwd gymaint o'r lluniau ag sy'n bosib i dudalen Flickr Clwb Ffoto AGC ac mae rhaid i mi ddweud eu bod nhw'n edrych yn wych! Mae'r lluniau ar y dudalen Flickr wedi eu trefnu i mewn i setiau ar ochr dde'r dudalen felly os wnaethoch chi gymryd rhan y cwbl sydd angen i chi wneud yw clicio ar ddyddiad eich ymweliad i'r Amgueddfa a chwilio am eich enw!
Mi fydd y lluniau yn cael eu harddangos ar y sgrin yng Nghanolfan Ddarganfod Clore yn yr Amgueddfa ar ddydd Sadwrn Medi'r 8fed felly os wnaethoch chi gymryd rhan yn y gweithdai dewch i weld eich lluniau yn cael eu harddangos yn yr Amgueddfa Genedlaethol!
Hoffwn ddiolch i Cat, Lauren a Catherine am wneud job mor dda o redeg y gweithgareddau a hoffwn ddiolch hefyd i bawb wnaeth cymryd rhan. Diolch!
Return of the Vikings? Week One
RETURN TO LLANBEDRGOCH (WEEK ONE)
The unexpected discovery in 2001 of an intramural burial within the early medieval enclosed settlement at Llanbedrgoch raised a new series of questions about the site, its occupants, their activities and their relationships with other regions.
We returned to the site a week ago, and the last eight days have focused on setting out the new areas of excavation, removing ploughsoil, monitoring weather forecasts and adjusting the daily tasks to make the best of at times trying conditions. The team of students includes volunteers from Bangor and Cardiff, and one from Toronto (Canada). Yesterday we were joined by some local, experienced, volunteers from Gwynedd and Anglesey. They have all been outstanding, and the early medieval archaeology of the site is already being transformed. Excavation is an ongoing process, and if you follow us over the next three weeks, the team will provide you with personal insights into the excavation.
Even though the research design has clearly stated objectives, the work often reveals evidence of a completely different nature. Our return this year was in fact the result of such an unexpected discovery and its implications. The burial from inside the enclosure (Burial 6) was not revealed in plan through specific searching for inhumations, or the recognition of subtle changes in soil colour or character, but by the decision to cut a narrow trench through the early medieval ‘black earth’ midden material in the south-western area of the site in order to reveal the midden sequence and facilitate section drawing and sampling.
In spite of the profound silence of the individual in this grave and those discovered in 1998-99, they continue since their discovery to help us answer in increasing detail a range of fundamental historical questions:
How did the people of Llanbedrgoch and north-west Wales, who had contact with Anglo-Saxons, Irish and Scandinavians, respond to such peoples?
How does the archaeological evidence for the politics and economy of early medieval Wales compare to that provided by other sources?
Were the daily lives of people at Llanbedrgoch during the sixth and seventh centuries different from those in the ninth and tenth centuries?
What types of diet and health did they enjoy?
How did Christianity affect their lives and burial practices?
We have already begun to answer some of these questions – one of the first artefacts to be found last week in the ploughsoil was a lead necklace pendant in the form of a cross – slightly larger than one found in an earlier season of excavation at the site.
This site continues to amaze, surprise and inspire – follow us if you can.
Mark Redknap
Return of the Vikings?
After a gap of more than a decade, a team of archaeologists has returned to excavate at Llanbedrgoch, Anglesey. You can read more about previous seasons at this Viking-Age settlement here http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/archaeology/vikings/
Mark Redknap and his team made an exciting discovery towards the end of the 2001 season - evidence that there might be an early medieval cemetery on the site. Are they right? Finds are appearing already, but what can they tell us? Watch this space to find out more!
Mark is joined this season by
Evan Chapman (Amgueddfa Cymru - National Museum Wales)
David Griffiths (University of Oxford)
Tudur Davies (University of Sheffield)
Brian Milton, an experienced archaeologist from Cornwall who has spent many seasons at Llanbedrgoch
Archie Gillespie, one of the two metal detectors who originally found the site and who is a dab hand with the archaeological trowel too.
Students from Cardiff, Bangor and Toronto Universities, and other volunteers.
Hopefully you'll get to hear more about them as the dig progresses over the next 3 weeks.
Sialens Amgueddfa
Treuliodd deg o bobl ifanc bedwar diwrnod yn ystod gwyliau’r haf yn ein helpu i wneud arddangosiadau’r morfil a’r môr-grwban yn fwy deniadol i deuluoedd.
Dyma nhw’n cofrestru ar gyfer y sialens drwy ?yl Ddysgu’r Haf Caerdydd, sy’n gwahodd plant 12-15 oed i ddysgu sgiliau newydd yn eu hamser sbâr. Dyma nhw’n dysgu sut i werthuso arddangosfa, dewis stori dda, ysgrifennu testun diddorol a dewis gwrthrychau er mwyn creu arddangosfa deniadol i deuluoedd.
Mewn pedwar diwrnod byr, dyma nhw’n creu arddangosiadau newydd a phosau i deuluoedd eu mwynhau. Mae ei gwaith yn cael ei ddangos drwy gydol gwyliau’r haf ac mae wedi bod yn boblogaidd iawn. Dewch i weld eu gwaith dros eich hunain yn oriel y morfil yn Amgueddfa Genedlaethol Caerdydd.
Diolch o galon i:
Jasmine Coombes, Emily Frankish, Aled Gomer, Thomas Griffiths, Samantha Hardy, Stephen Lloyd, Simon Naylor, Maxwell Piper, Anna Rees, Mollie Shand.
categorïau
Pob cofnod
Ffotograffau Hanesyddol (Esmee Ffairburn)
cofnodion diweddar
Museum collections in Wales – Knowledge is Preservation
