Welcome to the Clifton Antiquarian Club Website

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Clifton Antiquarian Club is based in Bristol, although members are distributed across the southern half of England and Wales. We seek to promote a better understanding of our archaeological heritage and meet on several occasions during the year for lectures, tours and research projects. Please feel free to contact us if you have any queries or are interested in getting involved.

An Archaeo-Geology Weekend on the Gower

What promises to be an action packed September weekend on the Gower! For more infomation go to the Events page.

Clifton Antiquarian Club's 'Spectacular' Excavation at Delancey Park, Guernsey

We have just completed our preliminary excavation of the putative gallery grave on Guernsey. For the BBC Guernsey report and George Nash's interview go to the BBC Guernsey website. For further details on the history of the site please go to the Delancey Park page. To see pictures of the team go to Delancey Dig 2010.

Clifton Antiquarian 2010 Proceedings Launch

The Club's 2010 Proceedings have now been released. At 352 pages, it is over twice the volume of Landscape Enquiries, our 2007 proceedings, and contains 18 papers on recent archaeological work in Britain, covering the period AD410-1066. We are very excited about its prospects and very much hope you enjoy it. Non members, please order a copy here!

Sardinian Archaeologists Reveal a Spectacular Rock-Art Discovery

Sardinia is noted for its prehistory, in particular Neolithic burial ritual monuments and a series of curious rock-cut tombs known as 'domus de janas' (houses for the fairies). One of these recently excavated rock-cut sites was found to contain some amazing rock-art and is now at the centre of a major controversy. For more details on this discovery download the pdf document here

Reviews of Recent Publications in Archaeology!

We have reviewed an eclectic range of books by authors from both Britain and abroad. Visit the Information page for more details