Mark Walters
@mark-walters.bsky.social
Archaeologist in Wales, UK. Into: Sound & Music, Photography, Botany, Birds, Dragonflies, Palaeontology, Astronomy, Art, Ancient History, Numismatics, Gaming, Border Collies & walks in the hills
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Love this pic of my wife Gill in 2008 -captures her sense of fun and gentle mischief. I think she was modelling one of her newly finished knitted hats 🙂She was a great knitter !
Lovely afternoon visiting Llanddwyn Island for the first time since we were living at Rhiwlas near Bangor 25 years back. This was a favourite walking spot for us along with all of the trails through Newborough Forest. Odd revisiting without Gill but happy memories restored 🙂
The winding engine house on Graig Wen above the Porth Wen brickworks, Anglesey which lowered the quarried quartzite rock down an incline plane to a stone breaker and crusher house building.
The coastal promontory #hillfort at Dinas Gynfor, Anglesey. The landward defences of limestone blocks are largely hidden in bracken but can be seen tracing a line on the right in the 2nd photo. Lola the collie stands in the entrance. The lidar shows the rampart well + view from E #HillfortsWednesday
The mid 19th century to 1949 brickworks at Porth Wen, Anglesey. The works produced fire resistant silica bricks from locally quarried quartzite which were used in furnace linings. The sea is undermining the foundations of many buildings making it a dangerous place to visit with many steep drops.
The old wireless transmitting mast, originally one of two, on Torllwyn above Porth Wen, Anglesey. It is now used as a maritime navigation aid.
It was damaged by fire in the 1920’s apparently and never rebuilt.
Nothing quite prepares you as you descend the rocky slope to the west and suddenly see the ruins of the mid 19th c. to 1920 Llanlleiana Porcelain Works below you with the curving sea defences, factory and chimney above. China clay was extracted to the west and east of the works.
Llanbadrig Church, Anglesey. Said to be the oldest church foundation in Wales by St. Patrick in 440AD. The present church fabric is 12th c. (font and nave) with a 14th-16th c. chancel. 1884 internal renovations revealed the 9th c. ‘Icthus’ stone depicting crossed fish and a palm tree.
Great to see some Choughs on the cliffs between Cemaes and Bull Bay today, Anglesey.
Lovely coastal path walk today from the historic industrial port at Porth Amlwch to Point Lynas lighthouse with diversions off the path to see stuff of interest. Greeted by two seals playing in a small bay on way back.
Yes in earlier post 👍
The visit to Llaneilian Church, Anglesey was well worth a diversion off the coastal path 😍 5th c. CE foundation with visible remains from the 12th-17th c. Remarkable 1496 timber rood screen with image of Death inscribed ’Sin is the sting of death’. 14th c. side chapel of St. Eilian down steps.
The medieval Saint Eilian’s well near Llaneilian on the Anglesey coastal path. It was originally a healing and pilgrimage well within a tiny chapel but in the 18th century it took on a darker role as a cursing well. The blue eyes on that creepy modern effigy of a monk definitely follow you around 👀🙂