Still life painter. Interested in dogs, Dartmoor, mountain walking, archaeology, human evolution and small things of the natural world. Left wing tendencies tempered by reading the Economist
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One of the fine mosaic floors at the Roman Town House in Dorchester, built between 307 and 341 CE
#MosaicMonday
Even more impressive silhouetted on the skyline
Bryn Cader Faner, a jaw droppingly impressive Bronze Age cairn circle near Talsarnau, Gwynedd. Dating from 3rd millennium BCE. 18 stones jut out like crown spikes from a large cairn.There may have been 30 but the British army used it as a gunnery practice target in WW11😱
#StandingStoneSunday
The smaller and older of the two Neolithic chambered tombs at Dyffryn Ardudwy, Gwynedd. Views of Tremadog Bay and the Llyn peninsula beyond. A pretty site, easy to access with great preservation. Some lovely Welsh ladies on a hen party there when I visited
#TombTuesday
Llanbedr. Apologies to the entire Welsh nation
What a view! Moel Goedog hillfort near Harlech, Gwynedd. A Bronze Age trackway with intermittent standing stones leads up from the coast. The views of the mountains, estuary and sea are outstanding
#HillfortsWednesday
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Lanbedr standing stones, Gwynedd. Bronze Age, the tallest over 3 metres high. Possibly marking the start of a Bronze Age trackway that heads up the ridge towards Moel Goedog hillfort (which I will be visiting in the next couple of days!)
#StandingStoneSunday
A glacier could have carried the giant sandstone at the centre of Stonehenge southwards from north-east Scotland, but this scenario appears unlikely
New Scientist
Becky Wallower
The Yorkshire-born maestro had been a cultural star to reckon with, and a pioneer of new figurative formats, since making headlines at the New Contemporaries exhibition in London in 1961
