Mark Walters

@mark-walters.bsky.social

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Archaeologist at Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology. Into: Sound & Music, Photography, Botany, Dragonflies, Palaeontology, Astronomy, Art, LiDAR, Ancient History, Numismatics, Gaming, Border Collies

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 1d

It’s so wet in the fields around us that it’s attracting Little Egrets down to feed on the worms surfacing due to the saturated soil. Nice to be able to watch them from the house 🙂

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 2d

This was our last visit to Sycamore Gap in 2022

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 2d

Great to receive the companion volume to the earlier Hadrian’s Wall in our time book. As someone who has walked, driven and even excavated along the wall on many occasions you do get attached to the superb archaeology and surrounding landscape here and you certainly notice the trees along the way.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d

I have never read a novel set in the Black Country before but found this one in a review. Set around the Pelsall & Brownhills collieries & canals in the 1870’s. It uses the Black Country dialect in conversations which you pick up after a while. A good read and beautifully evocative writing.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d

It’s a constant battle with rural landowners isn’t it. Our village benefitted by having a retired lady from Natural England on the local council who was really good at negotiating public footpath opening on neglected routes and the network has really developed over the last 10 years.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d

EA won’t bother unless it’s a main river or tributary of a main river. We have reported to Natural Resources Wales in the past as the Montgomeryshire Canal is a SSSI and SAC in places, but they never do anything either.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d

Help Save the House that Rose Re-Built www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/help-save-...

Help Save the House that Rose Re-Built

A fire killed my mum Rose Roberts and destroyed historic Perches House in Shrewsbury. This campaign aims to save it and mum's legacy.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d

All that quality topsoil washing off the fields into the canal as a brown silt. The farmer ploughs right up to the edge of the canal here so anything that goes onto the field surface (cow slurry, fertiliser, sprayed treatments) also washes into the canal.

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Dr R. Alan Williams @r-alan-w.bsky.social · 3d

Update on our archaeological excavations on St Michael’s Mount in Cornwall and the first direct evidence linking the island to the Bronze Age tin trade.

www.cambridge.org/core/blog/20...

Excavating the British tin trade that shaped the Bronze Age « Archaeology# « Cambridge Core Blog

In 2025, we published an article in Antiquity, demonstrating through chemical and isotopic analyses that, c. 1300 BC, tin ingots made from tin ores in southwest Britain are found on shipwrecks off the...

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6d

Donation page to help secure the Ellastone Bronze Age gold fastener for The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery in Staffordshire and prevent it being bought by a private collector….. www.stokemuseums.org.uk/pmag/help-sa...

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6d

I always check out which species of Gulls have landed in the fields around us. Most people don’t give them a second look & they just get dismissed as generic ‘seagulls’, but I like to know what is passing through. In this case about 100 Lesser black-backed & some smaller juvenile Black-headed Gulls

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6d

This solitary Cyclamen is always the first ground colour along the canal, well ahead of the carpet of Primroses lining the towpath this year

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6d

Reflections and glowing hazel catkins in some unexpected sunshine this morning down the Montgomeryshire Canal

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 8d

🐕 👀 You should be playing with me not reading that new novel 🙂

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Simon Reynolds @simonreynolds.bsky.social · 8d

My new book Still In A Dream: Shoegaze, Slackers, and the Reinvention of Rock, 1984-94 is out in June on @whiterabbitbks.bsky.social . It's a love letter to the music of my youth and a flashback to the most exciting time of my writing life. Pre-order geni.us/StillInADream

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 8d

Yes, the intro was a good read 👍

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RSPB @rspb.bsky.social · 8d

BREAKING: A Gamekeeper has pleaded guilty in England’s first-ever Hen Harrier persecution case.

Covert video and audio gathered lawfully by the RSPB Investigations team has helped expose the deliberate targeting of a Hen Harrier, leading to a landmark guilty plea:

www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen... 👈

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 9d

Late afternoon wellness break in the sunshine on the Breidden - needed this ☀️🙂

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 9d

It will become a vital archaeological finds guide in the future if everything is dated by type in there 🙂 In fact some community digs have already used crisp packets and BBE dates on other 20th century wrappers to date events eg. the Kelvingrove skatepark closure.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 9d

If you can get a research project going with the Uni that would be great 👍

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 9d

It’s a lovely bit of data showing that the interior is well preserved 👍

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Durotriges Dig @durotrigesdig.bsky.social · 9d

What lies Beneath (the soil)?

The Iron Age hillfort of Chalbury #Dorset, interior roundhouse platforms showing up beautifully:

1) composite #LiDAR visualization courtesy of @mark-walters.bsky.social

2) magnetometry survey by Dave Stewart in 2014

We count at least 73 houses 😲

#HillfortsWednesday

LiDAR image showing the rampart of an Iron Age hillfort with interior roundhouse hollows

Magnetometry survey image showing the interior of an Iron Age hillfort with multiple roundhouses

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 10d

Great to have a new Sarathy Korwar album in the house. If you love good drumming/percussion infused music this is for you. We were lucky to see his band playing live in Shrewsbury back in 2023 and it was a fab night.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 11d

I couldn’t get to the Wiltshire Museum to see this exhibition of artworks taking inspiration from the cultural heritage of the Wiltshire downland landscape, but managed to get a copy of the exhibition booklet. Love Rose Ferraby’s new work along with the other artists included.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 11d

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 12d

Wow, that’s a monster 😋

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 12d

I thought I was a bit late between 12-1pm but still saw all of our normal visitors. It probably helps that the neighbours put out food although we never used feeders. We are right next to agricultural fields too so there’s always something passing through.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 12d

Always nice to see the male catkins appear on the Alder trees along the Montgomeryshire Canal. They give the trees a slightly reddish tinge before the catkins go green

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 12d

Rhysnant hedgerows

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 12d

Did the RSPB Garden Birdwatch. All the usual suspects dropped in except for Dunnocks which I haven’t seen so far this year. Can’t really count the Little Egret that stood in the field beyond the garden or the Red Kite and Cormorant that flew over.

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