Archaeologist. Into: Sound & Music, Photography, Botany, Lichens, Birds, Dragonflies, Palaeontology, Astronomy, Art, Ancient History, Numismatics, Gaming, Border Collies & walks in the hills
Mark Walters
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Parent and two young Ravens on the Breidden this morning (backed by panting collie sounds 🙂)
Foxgloves following the line of collapsed rampart wall of the Breidden hillfort
The only orchid you will find on the Breidden. Gill and I always used to look out for it every year and even though she’s gone now it’s nice to have these little constant things popping up in life that we shared. It’s a Common-spotted Orchid.
A gusty morning on the Breidden hills looking out over home in the Severn/Vyrnwy confluence. The rain and cloud clinging to the distant Berwyn mountains, as it usually does here, and leaving us dry.
Snoozing collie - a bit of gentle music always works 🙂
Needed an infusion of new poetry reading so I caught up with the latest Jane Clarke collections from Bloodaxe Books having enjoyed her debut The River back in 2015. Also two from Black Cat Poetry Press with a landscape/ nature theme. #poetry #poetrycommunity #theblackcatpoetrypress #bloodaxebooks
Sad news - loved his artworks and his books on art…..David Hockney, revolutionary British artist, dies aged 88 www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...
Great conversation with the multi-talented musician Jayne Dent (Me Lost Me) on her creative process with modern folk interpretations podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/c...
Broken snail shells around a Song Thrush’s anvil stone used to break them open & a close up of the anvil with crushed shell. Recent research here www.researchgate.net/publication/... has shown that other species of bird will digest the shell fragments at anvil sites to improve calcium intake.
We spoke with #AntiquityPrize winners R. Alan Williams and Ben Roberts on their prize-winning research, which found British tin supplied the bronze production of the major Bronze Age civilisations of the Eastern Mediterranean 🏺 #Archaeology
Check out the interview: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UCM...
