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CALCH Day 3 Part 2 – If At First You Don’t Succeed
Whilst Sarah and I were sitting in the warm in Llandovery, Menna and two hardy volunteers (Gaynor and Brian) had ventured up the Black Mountain to continue with the plane table survey. There was less...
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CALCH Day 4 – Table, Tumble and Fall
The start of Thursday 14th March marked the beginning of the 4th day of fieldwork on the Black Mountain. Menna and Sarah from DAT were joined by three volunteers – Tony, Joe and Brian – all of whom...
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CALCH Day 5 – Always Take The Weather With You
Unfortunately, due to the bad weather (torrential rain and suchlike) we could not work on site today and the weekend sessions will also be cancelled. Could someone who lives in warmer climes please...
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CALCH Day 6 – Positively Balmy (and a little barmy too)
The sun was shining and we were all happy as we gathered in the car park near Herbert’s Quarry. We donned our extra pairs of socks and commented on the presence of snow and the lack of an almost gale...
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CALCH Day 7 – Snow Joke!
It looked like a lovely morning this morning – some of us arrived on the mountain early and had a cup of tea whilst waiting for the rest of the team to arrive. As we laced ourselves into our sturdy...
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CALCH Day 8 – Another Bad Weather Day
The weather forecast suggested that there would be as much snow today as there was yesterday, so we decided that we would not risk the mountain for fear of getting stranded up there… The plus side to...
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Brand New Super Cool Facebook Page
Just for a little bit more shameless self promotion I have set up a Facebook page to share information about projects within the Brecon Beacons, spread news about world archaeology and express opinions...
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Blogging Elsewhere
Just a short one to mention I’ve been asked to blog for a couple of other sites – I’ll provide more information when I know more! It’s defnintely exciting stuff! I never thought I’d be asked to write...
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A Thought
I have come to the conclusion that Thesaurus was in fact the big daddy of the dinosaur world – a Mafia boss of sorts – and actually has nothing to do with synonyms what-so-ever.
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CALCH Day 9 – More Snow (the ‘it hurts when it hits you in the face’ type...
We tried our hardest to ignore the weather – we climbed up the mountain (granted our cars did the actual ‘climbing’) and put on our waterproof and windproof layers, but alas! We could not overlook the...
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Being Featured
Well, this is a first; I’ve been featured on someone else’s blog! It’s not massive, just a little career interview on Archaeology Resource. You can find the website here.
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'Pompeii' by Bastille
Reblogged from Musical Archaeological: 'And the walls kept tumbling down In the city that we love Great clouds roll over the hills Bringing darkness from above ' Read more… 280 more words
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Photograph Feature – Swan Llangors Lake
A visit to Llangors Lake in early April provided an opportunity to visit the reconstructed crannog (for more info see my previous post) and to say hello to the twenty or so swans who were milling...
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Over 5,000 views now!!!
Thank you all for your visits and I appreciate every comment you’ve left :) Hope you’ve enjoyed reading my posts and thoughts, will be adding more articles very soon along with a WordPress tips section...
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Photograph Feature – Carreg Cennen Castle at Dusk
Carreg Cennen Castle, the subject of many of my fond childhood memories, is a superb example of using topography as a natural defence. The castle perches at the top of a prominent 300m high limestone...
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Setting up your blog
The first thing I can suggest when setting up your blog is think; think about your genre, think about your blog URL and your title – make sure that those three things make sense and you’ll be off to a...
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Photograph Feature – A View to Swansea
The view from Carreg Goch common looking towards Swansea at the start of a day’s walking survey up on the Black Mountain (we only got a little bit sunburnt!!)
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Photography Section Update
Been a while since I added more photos to the photo section so put a couple more pages up! Photos from a trip out to the waterfalls and gunpowder works down at Pontneddfechan can be found here and...
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New Section –“Other Articles”
I’ve been published! Wrote a book review for Exarc Journal and it’s just been put up. This is a happy day! As I’ve now got some stuff up on the wider web I’ve created a new section on this blog which...
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Photograph Feature – When The Sun Shines at Herbert’s Quarry
You may recall my previous posts about the CALCH project (see here) – the fieldwork during which it snowed, blew a gale and threatened to leave us all with hyperthermia – and we’re back up at the...
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