museum Archives - Anglesey History

8 May 2021

Review – Parc Cybi: A Landscape Through Time

The following review was published in the Anglesey Antiquarian Society‘s 2020 Transactions. Oriel Môn will be reopening on 18 May 2021, and the exhibition can be viewed until 13 June 2021. Jane Kenney, Gwynedd Archaeological Trust, an exhibition at Oriel Môn, Llangefni, 12 December 2020 – 13 June 2021 Between 2006 and 2010 Gwynedd Archaeological Trust (GAT) carried out extensive...

18th century/Anglesey Antiquarian Society/archaeology/Bronze Age/Iron Age/museum/Roman Comments: 0

20 October 2019

Old Friends in New Places – Visiting St Fagans

The ever expanding St Fagans National Museum of History opened new galleries and a new reconstructed building last year, but I’ve only this weekend got a chance to go down there to check out all the Anglesey connections. Top of the list to see was Llys Llywelyn. This is a recreation of the 13th century Royal Court of the Princes...

13th century/medieval/museum/Viking Comment: 1

8 January 2018

From Anglesey to Bodelwyddan

Yesterday I went from Anglesey to Bodelwyddan Castle in Denbighshire. Nothing unusual there; I often drive by it, promising myself that I will one day stop to have a closer look, but never managing it. So, I made a special trip out there. As I toured around and looked at the story of its various owners I discovered that the...

15th century/19th century/20th century/biography/museum/Old Houses Comments: 4

20 September 2016

An Iron Age Tardis? Bryn Eryr roundhouses at St. Fagans

It’s bigger on the inside than it appears from outside, and it lets you travel back in time, like Dr. Who’s Tardis. That was my first thought when I ducked through the low entrance into the high-ceilinged space of the reconstructed Bryn Eryr roundhouses at St. Fagans open air history museum. I’ve been wanting to visit St. Fagans for quite...

archaeology/Iron Age/museum/Old Houses/Roman/Roundhouses Comments: 3

Category: museum

Review – Parc Cybi: A Landscape Through Time

Old Friends in New Places – Visiting St Fagans

From Anglesey to Bodelwyddan

An Iron Age Tardis? Bryn Eryr roundhouses at St. Fagans