The End Is Nigh
Well, I’ve got less than two weeks left at the Brecon Beacons! How time flies! I can’t quite believe how quickly (although some of it went slowly) this placement has gone; a year has flown by. I’ve...
View ArticlePen-y-crug; How To Solve A Problem Like Bracken?
Pen-y-crug Iron Age fort is one of 27 Iron Age forts within the area that is the Brecon Beacons National Park. Pen-y-crug is a large multivallate (many defensive banks and ditches) Iron Age hillfort...
View Article#BlogArch Number One
An archaeology blogging carnival?! How could I read that and walk away without contributing (albeit slightly late; Alas!)? So, thanks to Doug’s Archaeology I have once again got my blog on and over the...
View Article#BlogArch Number Three – The Best Bits
So this is my third article in the ‘BlogArch’ series of posts written in conjunction with Doug’s Archaeology’s blogging carnival! If you haven’t read anything about this yet please click here for a...
View Article‘Pompeii’ by Bastille
‘And the walls kept tumbling down In the city that we love Great clouds roll over the hills Bringing darkness from above ‘ Most people know about the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD79; about the...
View ArticleDryslwyn Castle – Towy Valley Guardian
As is the case with the nearby Carreg Cennen castle, Dryslwyn sits on a prominent outcrop situated in the middle of a valley. This strategic positioning in the centre of the Towy Valley allowed an...
View ArticleIfA’s ‘New Generation’ Special Interest Group (NewGen)
Just a little bit of news for you regarding a shiny, fresh and exciting Special Interest Group that has sprung up as part of the Institute for Archaeologists! I admit this openly – I am going to steal...
View ArticleCALCH – Spring Clean 17th March
On Monday March 17th we held the first of our ‘Spring Cleaning’ events up at Herbert’s Quarry on the Black Mountain. Unfortunately over the winter, much litter had been left up on the mountain which...
View ArticleThe Black Mountain Festival, July 5th
Well, it has been some time since I posted a proper article on here (one will be posted soon, I promise) but first of all I must share with you news on the exciting upcoming CALCH event to be held this...
View ArticleIfA Conference 2014 (or; confusing grid systems)
As happens every time I attend an event, I have the best intention of writing it up during or soon after the occasion but instead end up doing so late. Very late. This is a brief [EDIT: not so brief]...
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