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About Timescape Archaeology CIC
About Timescape Archaeology CIC
Timescape Archaeology CIC is a not-for-profit community interest company specialising in high-quality public archaeology and heritage engagement.
Timescape Archaeology CIC is a not-for-profit community interest company specialising in high-quality public archaeology and heritage engagement.
We work closely with site teams to deliver meaningful, site-sensitive activities that enhance visitor experience while supporting learning, access, and enjoyment of the historic environment.
We work closely with site teams to deliver meaningful, site-sensitive activities that enhance visitor experience while supporting learning, access, and enjoyment of the historic environment.
Our events are designed for a wide range of audiences, including families, schools, adult learners, and specialist interest groups, and can be tailored to individual monuments, landscapes, and themes.
Our events are designed for a wide range of audiences, including families, schools, adult learners, and specialist interest groups, and can be tailored to individual monuments, landscapes, and themes.
Hands-on Archaeology
Hands-on Archaeology
Artefact handling, excavation simulations, and finds processing activities that allow visitors to engage directly with the archaeological process.
Living History & Interpretation
Living History & Interpretation
Immersive, costumed interpretation linked to specific periods or sites, bringing past lives and stories vividly into the present.
Education & Outreach
Education & Outreach
Curriculum-linked workshops and sessions for schools and families, supporting enquiry-based learning and historical understanding.
Historical Periods Covered
Prehistory (Stone Age, Bronze Age, Iron Age), including craft displays such as flint knapping, stone carving and bronze casting.
Roman Britain
Early Medieval / Early Christian Wales
Medieval period: Age of Princes and Edward's Welsh wars, Wars of the Roses: Arms and armour displays, including archery
Post-medieval: The Civil Wars: sieges and garrisons
Industrial heritage: Victorian surveying and a unique display of early flight/Welsh aviation pioneers from kites to airships. (see end of page)
Working With Us
Working With Us
Availability: Year-round, including weekdays, weekends, school holidays, and peak summer seasons. Events can be delivered as single-day activities or multi-day programmes.
Locations: We are happy to travel to Cadw sites across all regions of Wales and the borders, including rural and coastal locations.
Plan an Event With Us
Plan an Event With Us
If you are planning a heritage event, open day, or educational programme, we would be happy to discuss how Timescape Archaeology CIC can support your site.
Pioneers Flight Company — Bringing Early Aviation Heritage to Life.
Pioneers Flight Company — Bringing Early Aviation Heritage to Life.
Pioneers Flight Company extends Timescape Archaeology CIC’s public archaeology work into the material culture and lived experience of early aviation. By combining experimental reconstruction, hands-on demonstration, and historically grounded interpretation, the programme explores how innovation, engineering, and human ingenuity shaped the early twentieth century.
Pioneers Flight Company extends Timescape Archaeology CIC’s public archaeology work into the material culture and lived experience of early aviation. By combining experimental reconstruction, hands-on demonstration, and historically grounded interpretation, the programme explores how innovation, engineering, and human ingenuity shaped the early twentieth century.
It complements our core archaeological offer by translating complex technical and historical processes into accessible, experiential learning, strengthening public understanding of how past technologies were developed, tested, and used within real social and military contexts—while remaining fully site-sensitive and aligned with best practice in heritage interpretation.
It complements our core archaeological offer by translating complex technical and historical processes into accessible, experiential learning, strengthening public understanding of how past technologies were developed, tested, and used within real social and military contexts—while remaining fully site-sensitive and aligned with best practice in heritage interpretation.
What We Deliver
What We Deliver
1. The Cody Glider Kite Experience
1. The Cody Glider Kite Experience
A visually impressive centrepiece based on the early man-lifting gliders tested in Britain in the 1900s. Visitors learn how glider-kites worked, why they were used, and how they influenced later military and civil aviation.
2. Early Airships & Lighter-than-Air Flight Display
2. Early Airships & Lighter-than-Air Flight Display
We introduce audiences to the world of pioneering airships—military, scientific, and commercial. Using scale models, period documentation, and tactile demonstration materials, we illustrate:
How non-rigid, semi-rigid, and rigid airships operated
Britain’s early airship programmes, including ET Willows Cardiff airships
The role of airships in reconnaissance and coastal defence
How balloons and dirigibles paved the way for powered aircraft
3. Living-History Interpretation
3. Living-History Interpretation
Our costumed demonstrators portray early aviators, balloon handlers, military engineers, and scientific observers. They deliver structured talks, demonstrations, and visitor Q&A tailored to a family audience.
4. Participatory and Educational Activities
4. Participatory and Educational Activities
Mini-workshops on lift, drag, and stability
Build-and-fly activities with small box kites
Handling sessions with period-accurate materials
Illustrated talks on Welsh aviation heritage, innovators, and early flight experiments
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