How far back did you manage to track the Mabinogi linked placenames ? I can see they are mostly there on the tithe mapping but did you find any on earlier estate maps ?

Absolutely, just no way to date the earlier oral origin. I could imagine some elements going well back into the early medieval period or even earlier. Interesting painting showing how far out it had silted up from the channel that used to run below the castle.

The silting up of the estuary at Harlech is remarkable isn’t it. By the time they were writing down the Mabinogion circa 1250 it must have been in its final stages of being navigable. Would love to know just how far back the stories go but I guess we will never know unless a lost manuscript appears

Thanks 👍 I was wondering if there is a photographic project in it so it’s a bit of a recce trip for that as well as a mooch around some of the archaeology and landscape connections.

You will know or have visited all of the places during your research…Llyn y Morwynion, Bryn Saeth, Llech Gronw, Afon Cynfal, Bryn Cyfergyr etc - Blodeuwedd country

The area east of Llan Ffestiniog

Doing a bit of research ahead of a circular walk next weekend through a landscape that has the strongest topographical links to events mentioned in the fourth branch of the Mabinogi.

Getting larger every time. I should be measuring them to see if she breaks a record of some sort 😁

‘We did a seance for Beethoven, to see what he thought’: the playful, pioneering life of field-recording maestro Annea Lockwood The New Zealand composer burned pianos, sampled earthquakes and recorded Belfast’s peace walls. And at 86 is still invested in her life’s work: to appreciate the music in everyday sound

‘We did a seance for Beethoven, to see what he thought’: the playful, pioneering life of field-recording maestro Annea Lockwood

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'Enormous' cave under Pembroke Castle could rewrite history, researchers say Archaeologists have so far uncovered "extremely rare" evidence of early humans and animals at the cave.

"Ancient hippopotamus bones found beneath Welsh castle" does sound very 'click-baity', but it's actually a really interesting archaeological story!
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Another day of checking leesides of large boulders with an overhang if they were used as hunting sites in the Stone Age. #Archaeology

Interesting project and methodology 👍

Ancient ‘machine-gun’ damage discovered on walls of Pompeii Recently uncovered damage to walls in Pompeii displays patterns that may have been made by an ancient “machine gun” called a polybolos

Recently uncovered damage to walls in Pompeii displays patterns that may have been made by an ancient “machine gun” called a polybolos

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Watching Tree Pipits doing their parachuting mating call from the tops of trees. Plenty of Linnet around today and Meadow Pipits. Surprised this resting Pheasant looking out over the Severn Valley

Early morning wander in the hills. There was a crashing through the trees and Lola delivered another giant log 😁

I had never noticed the completely random Lama shape created by shadows on the side of the boulder until people on here pointed it out 🙂

Nice thin sliver of a Moon in the west tonight and Venus underneath it about to dip below the horizon

Oh never noticed that 😁 Some clever shadows there 👍

Part of an outcrop of rock that is clinging to the side of the valley

Cwm Teigl, Eryri

One of those lovely still and quiet mornings up to 10am before everyone starts throwing themselves around in vehicles. You just have to soak it up while you can 🙂

Along the paths to Llanymynech…

The Jackdaws are keeping an eye on the situation from their chimney pot nests

Not often that we see a Mandarin duck on the canal.

That one’s not in the book unfortunately.

Nice out the back…

The castle lies on private ground with no access and is currently covered in trees. It has never been excavated and remains undated but was most likely a late 11th - 12th century timber fortification in origin. It guards access along the Severn valley and a fording point to the north.

Thought I would restart the #FridayLidar posts again which a few of us interested in archaeological #lidar data used to post up on Twitter. This week we have the well preserved Cefn Bryntalch medieval ring-motte and bailey castle sitting above the Severn valley near Abermule in Powys. 1/2 👇