Mark Walters
@mark-walters.bsky.social
Archaeologist at Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology. Into: Sound & Music, Photography, Botany, Dragonflies, Palaeontology, Astronomy, Art, LiDAR, Ancient History, Numismatics, Gaming, Border Collies
This was our last visit to Sycamore Gap in 2022
February 4, 2026 at 6:49 PM
This was our last visit to Sycamore Gap in 2022
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.
February 4, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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.
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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.
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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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February 3, 2026 at 12:21 PM
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...
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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.
February 3, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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.
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.
February 3, 2026 at 4:27 PM
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.
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.
February 3, 2026 at 4:17 PM
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.
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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February 3, 2026 at 2:08 PM
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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.
February 3, 2026 at 1:39 PM
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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I’m glad to be a contributor to this, and it is indeed a lovely book!
Hadrian’s Wall and its Trees, ed. by David J. Breeze @archaeopress.bsky.social
Just flipped through a copy of this, and it's rather beautiful. A celebration of life inspired by the death of a tree. All short contributions, from the academic to the poetic
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Just flipped through a copy of this, and it's rather beautiful. A celebration of life inspired by the death of a tree. All short contributions, from the academic to the poetic
www.archaeopress.com/Archaeopress...
January 8, 2026 at 9:44 AM
I’m glad to be a contributor to this, and it is indeed a lovely book!
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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January 31, 2026 at 3:13 PM
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...
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
January 31, 2026 at 2:36 PM
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
This solitary Cyclamen is always the first ground colour along the canal, well ahead of the carpet of Primroses lining the towpath this year
January 31, 2026 at 12:53 PM
This solitary Cyclamen is always the first ground colour along the canal, well ahead of the carpet of Primroses lining the towpath this year
Reflections and glowing hazel catkins in some unexpected sunshine this morning down the Montgomeryshire Canal
January 31, 2026 at 10:27 AM
Reflections and glowing hazel catkins in some unexpected sunshine this morning down the Montgomeryshire Canal
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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
January 29, 2026 at 7:12 PM
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
🐕 👀 You should be playing with me not reading that new novel 🙂
January 29, 2026 at 8:38 PM
🐕 👀 You should be playing with me not reading that new novel 🙂
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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... 👈
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... 👈
January 29, 2026 at 5:11 PM
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... 👈
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... 👈
Yes, the intro was a good read 👍
January 29, 2026 at 5:45 PM
Yes, the intro was a good read 👍
Late afternoon wellness break in the sunshine on the Breidden - needed this ☀️🙂
January 28, 2026 at 3:42 PM
Late afternoon wellness break in the sunshine on the Breidden - needed this ☀️🙂
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.
January 28, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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.
If you can get a research project going with the Uni that would be great 👍
January 28, 2026 at 9:11 AM
If you can get a research project going with the Uni that would be great 👍
It’s a lovely bit of data showing that the interior is well preserved 👍
January 28, 2026 at 9:01 AM
It’s a lovely bit of data showing that the interior is well preserved 👍
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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
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
January 28, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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
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
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.
January 27, 2026 at 5:41 PM
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.
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.
January 26, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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.