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Archaeology

To the archaeologist, whether enthusiastic amateur, historian or scientist, Swansea and the Gower Peninsula have revealed a rich past.

From the internationally important Gower bone-caves, for example the Paviland caves (the earliest scientifically excavated cave site in Britain), to Bronze Age burial sites, Iron Age hillforts,  and Medieval buildings that remain at the heart of the city.  Each site has been discovered and carefully excavated, the finds recorded and interpreted to reveal an astonishing human history of man’s cultural evolution in south-west Wales.

The Museum at Swansea exhibits an archaeological timeline designed around artefacts from each of these historical periods.  It also houses archaeological exhibits from around the world, Italy and Greece, Cyprus and Cyrenia as well as a fascinating Egyptian mummy named Hor.

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Cave archaeology and the Pleistocene

Death and Burial

The Iron Age

Medieval Swansea

Archaeologists, antiquarians and Egyptologists

 

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In line with government advice, Swansea Council has suspended many non-essential services to help the community fight coronavirus. This includes those places where public gather such as museums and galleries, and as a result Swansea Museum is temporarily closed.

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Swansea – A Photographer’s Dream
In ‘Swansea – A photographer’s Dream’ Colin Riddle’s pictures of Swansea in the 1960s represent images of a lost age, and though much of what he photographed still exists for the keen historian to seek out, much has also disappeared.

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