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    FRIENDS OF CARMARTHENSHIRE ARCHIVES
    Carmarthen Journal, Wales, UK
    March 27, 2013
    Edition 1; National Edition

    http://www.carmarthenshirefhs.info/friendsofthearchives.htm


    ON March 13 members and guests met at the county archive office in
    Parc Myrddin. Vice-chairwoman Edna Dale Jones opened the meeting and
    gave a brief outline of the restoration work that was being carried
    out by the conservators. This included certain parish registers and
    the map books of the Bishop of St David's and the Cawdor Estate Maps.

    The estimated cost of repairs was in the region of £1,000 which would
    be funded from the reserves of the Friends. Additionally an appeal
    was made to fill two vacancies on the committee. The vice chair then
    introduced the speaker for the evening, the well-known and eminent
    archaeologist Heather James. Mrs James delivered a fascinating
    account of a self-funded project that she was involved with, in
    Armenia recording pre -historic rock art.

    Commencing with a brief history of Armenia which included the terrible
    genocide of Armenians in Turkey between 1915 and 1917, and the fact
    that even today Turkey refuses to apologise and the fact that Armenia
    was the first state to adopt Christianity as its religion. Moving
    on to the project of recording pre -historic rock art, Mrs James
    explained that the location of this rock art was found in an area
    known as Ughtasar which bordered on Azerbaijan.

    The remoteness of the area together with the threat of wild bears made
    the business of recording quite an interesting experience. The speaker
    was thanked by Jeremy John who compared her adventure in Armenia to
    the famous Gertrude Bell, the Victorian/Edwardian Archaeologist.

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