My latest blog, courtesy of, and thanks to, @castlestudies.bsky.social

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🏰✨ Free Walk & Talk! ✨🏰

📅 Sat 13 Sept 2025 | ⏰ 2–4 pm
📍 Caergwrle Castle, Flintshire

📩 Reserve your spot: rachel@swallowtailarchaeology.co.uk

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Worn holloways, whispering sunken lanes.
A #castle nestled in the folds of its landscape.
No sound but #nature.
Time and Peace hold their breath. 😊

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View today from the SE of #Caernarfon #Castle, #Gwynedd, #Wales

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Graves in the foreground, stone-walled field systems climbing the hills behind—layers of power, community, and land use written into the landscape.

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The Real Mortimer History society:

Join me on my talk on Eleanor of Castile's connections to #Caernarfon #Castle and to a lost Marcher castle at Overton-on-Dee.

See full programme and book tickets at lnkd.in/e_rNxDc9

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It’s my birthday weekend! 🎉 I left Twitter/X at 1.5k++ followers for bluer skies—and landed here. Let’s beat that number! Follow for castles, lost legends & landscape magic 🏰✨ #medievalsky #queenoflostcastles #Legendladylandscape #ResearchWritingReviewReach

It’s International Women’s Day.

Find your passion, fellow international women, and follow it to the sky! 💜

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DM me to see how Swallowtail Archaeology can help your work go further.

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New Light on Old.

The research continues - and expands in context.

And what a joy it is!

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Historic landscapes have been central to my healing; they remind me I’m not alone in carrying the past.

If historic places support your wellbeing too, I’d love to hear how.

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Almost ready for publication: one blog, one short article, one queen, ongoing research, new interpretation. Exciting times!

[Photo by me: Queen Eleanor de Castile, Medieval Women exhibition, British Library, February 2025].

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Always look up — and down — at historic buildings.

Simple paving outside a Grade II* hall in NE Wales, c.1600. Quiet, enduring details.

Seen anything similar? Share it.

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New card, same mission.

Research I Writing I Review I Reach.

Now with a QR code — for targeted, to-the-point access to work across periods and disciplines.

For Words that Work.

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