Cat Rees

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Archaeologist in North Wales. Currently studying PhD looking at death in Pre-Roman Wales. Other interests include making random stuff and scruffing my hounds.

Back page, sky and rainbow as background. Text reads "Sweet embrace became midnight sky, On the edge of venturing into the unknown, We learned how to celebrate the healing after the stormy weather, Wish you were here".
Zine front cover with PhD title 'Annwn BC' on a light brown background with bronze age urns and a decorated skull.
Partially finished Psyduck bag. Yellow face and brown beak made from fabric scraps
Notebook page from my PhD looking at child burial. It's an absolute mess but also somehow seems to make sense to me 😂
Grooved Ware (late neolithic style pottery) inspired fabric patch. Orange spiral on a yellow disc with wavy brown lines over an orange background. Sewn onto brown corduroy
Computer print out with the word Mamgu (gran in South Wales Welsh) and a Mother's Day card with "Sul y Mamau Hapus Nain" (happy mother's day but Nain is the North Wales word for gran)
Decorated Christmas tree with Mari Lwyd needle felt topper on yellow background and the words "nadolig llawen a blwyddyn newydd dda"
Needle felt horses head/skull with blue and green detail. Sculpture of a ceffyl dwr or water horse
Needle felt Mari Lwyd on top of a little Christmas tree. Yellow walls in background
Mari Lwyd tree decorations shown in garden
Group of decorations of owls with flowers representing Blodeuwedd
Rainbow selection of Mari Lwyd Christmas tree decorations. Handmade from felt and other fabrics with ribbons
Culverhole Cave figurine
Two needle felt faces based on iron age art mounted on a white door. Upper face is on circular canvas with black and gold background. Face is orange and yellow with red spikes on yellow and orange crescent around head. Inspired by Culverhole Cave figurine. Lower is green and gold circular canvas with darker green face. Inspired by the Tal y Llyn shield.
Needle felt Ceffyl Dwr, white horse skull with green and blue mane and decorations on the face. Yellow background with wooden frame mirror
Needle felt work in progress of a Cefyl Dwr (water horse) from Welsh mythology.
Bilingual Welsh/English pamphlet urging the people of Wales to vote against the opening of licensed premises in Wales on Sundays.
My first attempt at a needle felt Mari Llwyd on top of the Christmas tree last year. This one has red ears and red, green and white ribbon. Room is painted yellow and tree has bluey white lights
Needle felt Mari Llwyd sculpture. Horse skull with purple, pink and green ribbons. On a brass colored stand in the garden
People in the Bronze Age valued gold and bronze. Gold is often found in hoards with bronze objects. The importance of bronze objects in this period led to the Treasure Act being updated in 2002. It now includes two or more objects of base metal, crafted in Prehistory.
The Ysceifiog bronze age gold cape
Quote (Pg 78) "This problem of classification is no more acute than in dealing with the henge. Henge monuments are probably the archetypal monument of the Later Neolithic and Earlier Bronze Age continuum primarily the legacy of that circular pile of rocks by the A303 in Wiltshire which has received and is continuing to receive as much archaeological attention as the rest of it's contemporary monuments put together. Yet Stonehenge is not a henge". (From his 2012 paper "What's in a name? A critical review of Welsh 'henges').
Fabric A0 conference poster laid out flat in hotel room with the A4 size box it folds into next to it
Small sticker saying "Ex Libris H.A.W. Burl"
Needle felt Cwn Annwn model - white wolfhound dog with red ears
Small marram grass bowl and woollen weaving on top of book on the marram grass weavers of Nwbwrch
Stone circle in upland moorland location.
Needle felt march hare in front of a bunch of daffodils in a green vase. Orange background
Long cairn with two parallel lines of stones in foreground of picture. Mountains in background with flowering yellow gorse and rushes visible.
Poster advertising event - is a screenshot of the webpage if you follow the link in the main post
Roadside medieval stone cross (circular face with cross, cylindrical body, round base) surrounded by roadsigns
Me standing in front of tomb - was meant to be inside it but smacked my head and decided against it 🤣
Stone circle with pathways visible. Within field and hedge in background. Upland area.
Wooden sign in an arrow shape with 'BARROW' carved into it. Moorland vegetation
Screenshot showing location of Alt text option in BlueSky
Row of nine standing stones at field edge. River bank to the right of the image. Stones around 1-1.5m in height.
Needle felt Gwyn ap Nudd. Character has horns and green hair, wearing a bronze torc. Green circlular canvas background
Ballowall Barrow, Cornwall. View looking out over a stormy sea.
Pont Fawr, Llanrwst. Bridge over the Afon Conwy. Stone bridge, triple arches, possibly designed by Inigo Jones .
Needle felted artwork with three horses with added beads and silver thread detail
Needle felt, three white horse heads with blues and greens to represent water and marsh vegetation. Circular canvas with acrylic paint as base.
Handmade felt Mari Lwyd decoration with the text Blwyddyn Newydd Dda/Happy New Year
Needle felted Mari Lwyd (Welsh New Year tradition of costume made from horse skull with ribbon decoration and sheet body) decoration. Held in hand in front of blurred Christmas tree
Needle felt Mari Lwyd - Welsh new year tradition of decorating a horses skull
Decorated and lit Christmas tree in corner of yellow room. No real theme just everything the kids fancied putting on the tree
Adult and baby mammoth made from needle felt. Wearing blue hats and scarves
Small barky dog snoozing on a pile of assorted cushions. Dog is black and white and looks a bit like a sheep dog but is about the size of a loaf of bread
Christmas tree with decorations in the main entrance hall at Amgueddfa Cymru, Cardiff
Needle felted t-rex Christmas decorations. Dinosaur wearing hat, scarf and gloves
Female Foundations: The Lives and Legacies of Women in Earth Sciences CALL FOR PAPERS *EXTENDED DEADLINE* We are hosting a day school to coincide with International Women’s Day 2025 on 8 th March 2025 in Dorchester, Dorset, UK. We welcome proposals for papers that celebrate individual or collective women’s contributions to science (broadly defined), with a focus on how their work, research or scientific endeavour enabled a progression of ideas or shift in practice within their field. We are therefore not inviting purely historical accounts, but how a past or current woman’s work has been influential and why we should celebrate them. We are delighted that the award-winning author Tracy Chevalier, will be joining us to talk about her work on Mary Anning. We invite abstracts (c. 150-250 words) for oral papers of a 20 minute duration, by 30/12/24 to anne@pastparticipate.co.uk
Walking through hillfort entrance. Awesome old dog hitching a ride in my backpack so he could still come on walks
Chambered tomb at Cors-y-Gedol. Road running alongside and mountains on skyline
A copy of the book The Prehistoric Chamber Tombs of England and Wales by Glyn Daniels (published 1950) with a black and white postcard showing the Devil's Den, Marlborough
Mammoth and mammoth baby life size model in Amgueddfa Cymru. Diorama of a cave as the setting.
Pair of massive standing stones
Two vintage necklaces, one with black beads which look like late neolithic carved stone balls found in Scotland
Toadstool in coniferous woods in Conwy valley. Has flat red cap with white stalk. Afraid that I don't know what it is called
Bilingual poster for a Mammoths and the Ice Age exhibition in Amgueddfa Cymru (National Museum Wales) in 1992. Mammoth and baby mammoth drawing
Trevethy Quoit at sunset. Megalithic tomb with hole in capstone
Single standing stone, part of stone circle. Moorland location with tin mine in background