CAER Heritage

27/05/2026

What a lovely and buzzing Love Our Hillfort session this morning! 🐝 The garden looked incredible in the sunshine today, thanks to the mighty efforts of our volunteers! 💪 The centre smelled incredible with the smell of fresh cookies and cakes being baked to keep us going whilst some of us created absolutely beautiful pieces of heritage themed art and as we finished cleaning some of the final pieces of Bronze Age pottery from last years excavation 🏺 Just in time for us to go and find some more in a few weeks time! 🪏 Thank you so much everyone for making the CAER Centre a wonderful place to be! 🧡

23/05/2026

Wonderful story and news from our amazing friends at the Scottish Crannog Centre 😁🛖👏

The previous reconstruction of the Iron Age roundhouse in Perthshire was destroyed in 2021

15/05/2026

We’re very excited to let you know that we will be digging again in Trelai Park this year for 4 weeks (from 08 June to 03 July). We’re returning to the location of the amazing Bronze Age settlement and we need your help! 🛖

If you’d like to volunteer and get involved, please get in touch - booking is absolutely essential and places are limited.

Please email us at [email protected] or visit www.caerheritage.org/dig to secure your place! 🪏

14/05/2026

This year's CAER community dig is coming soon!!! Details will be announced shortly, but in the meantime here's a little taster of the excitement of last year's amazing excavation 😁⚱️🪏🪏🪏

The Caerau and Ely Rediscovering (CAER) Heritage Project, a partnership between Cardiff University, Action in Caerau and Ely (ACE), local schools, residents ...

30/04/2026

Brilliant visit from the awesome pupils and staff of Ysgol Nant Caerau today! We learned about life in Iron Age Caerau, took a lovely walk in the sunshine up the Hillfort after which the area is named, got a close up look at some ancient artefacts, learned about food in the Iron Age before lunch and then got hands on making some prehistoric pottery! Diolch yn fawr iawn i chi gyd am ddiwrnod gwych! 🏺 🛖 ☀️ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿

29/04/2026

It was fantastic to welcome Natalie, Tim and Kelsey of Flat Holm Island Official to the CAER Heritage Centre this afternoon for a really positive chat about collaborations between our organisations and the fascinating heritage of Cardiff and the Severn Estuary islands.

Watch this space as they have some very exciting plans for future projects, and we’re looking forward to teaming up with them to create some incredible opportunities for our awesome volunteers and communities! Who knows, maybe the Bronze Age people of Trelai Park even took a few trips out to the island themselves! 🧡

08/04/2026

A lovely sunny Love Our Hillfort session today! ☀️ Perfect for cooling off doing some finds cleaning and a great way to celebrate the birthday of our Mighty Dave Dave Wyatt! We even let him have some cake, after he’d helped to water the new fruit trees! 😉