Two tall standing stones in level pasture with a blue sky behind
#StandingStoneSunday the magical Neolithic or Early Bronze Age stone pair at Penrhos feilw, nr Trearddur, Ynys Môn/Anglesey 🥰
Remarkable that they have survived so long 😮
📷 My own 2025
My prediction: a couple of SMs will defect from Reform to Restore once elected.
The first US census noting immigrants’ places of origin was in 1850, and it would record nearly 30,000 people born in Wales. All of these would’ve spoken Welsh, and many of them raised their American children speaking Welsh✍️ Jerry Hunter wp.me/p8Mk4U-1jvx
Lecture notice: Ben Guy, How to write a history of Britain in the ninth century, DIAS Dublin, 5 pm 30 April 2026
Léacht - Lecture
Ben Guy @department-asnc.bsky.social
How to write a history of Britain in the ninth century: Historia Brittonum and its sources
DIAS 10 Burlington Road
5pm 30 Aibreán/April
@dias.ie
A close-up of a gravestone carving. Carved lilies, roses, marigolds and ferns, above the lettering 'in loving memory of'. The rest of the lettering has worn away.
Was early to Meeting today, so I paid a visit to the lovely neighbouring graveyard at St. Mary's, Bridgend. Spring flowers rioting everywhere, three huge yew trees, and this lovely gravestone caught my eye. The name is sadly lost, but the carved flowers are beautiful.
I loving memory of 'someone'
Love this stone in St Ives Museum
The Raven's Bowl beside an ancient track in the hills above Llangollen, North Wales. Probably the base of a medieval wayside cross but it's unknown what happened to the cross itself. The hollow socket forms the 'bowl' of its romantic name.
#StandingStoneSunday #medieval #antquities #Wales
Final part of Y Gododdin, one of the oldest epic poems in the Welsh language (Cymraeg), written in my modified version of Iolo Morgannwg's Coelbren y Beirdd. A fun project which took me over a month to finish.
A grassy hill with bushes at sunset
Evening light on the impressive Iron Age earthworks of the isthmus gateway at Pendinas hillfort, Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, recently cleared of vegetation & looking superb 👌
Always worth a visit 💯
📷 This evening ☀️
There's a Penarth pub named the St Fagans Castle, known locally as the Fag.
A major new archaeological project is set to investigate a vast cave hidden beneath a Welsh castle, where early excavations have already uncovered some of the most significant prehistoric finds in Britain
Gwych! Ogof Wogan, Penfro
All ogof gudd dan gastell canoloesol 'ailysgrifennu cynhanes'? www.bbc.co.uk/cymrufyw/ert...
He's going to be inundated with complaints from ex-employees of Barry Island funfair.
I used to take tickets on the Log Flume in Barry Island in 1983, so I could maybe suggest someone.
We're looking at pendulum dowsing in this week's episode of Fabulous Folklore! It appears in a range of folklore, from the famous ‘sieve and shears’ practised by cunning folk, to wedding ring-based love divination! Let’s explore them further... pod.co/fabulous-fol...
Jan’s own story fascinates as much as anything she wrote herself and she has found the biographer she deserves in this exceptional book ✍️Desmond Clifford wp.me/p8Mk4U-1j8q
First Osprey egg of the season for a Welsh public nest was laid at Clywedog today at 13:27 (12th April). Resident male Dylan was keen to take a look whilst resident female Seren (5F) looked on.
(c)Llyn Clywedog Ospreys
(c)CarnyxWild
#UKOspreys
This weeks Time between Times episode features a terrifying tale from the Welsh woodlands
The Gloddaeth Ghost stalks the forest paths and you can find him here . If you really want to look
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That's the system we used to have.
What's the etymology of that?
#MythologyMonday
One of the oldest tales of King Arthur is the hunt of the giant boar Twrch Trwyth, found in the sotry of Culhwch and Olwen.
Less remembered are the boar's piglets,though. They were every bit as brutal as the older boar, killing all but one of the hunters sent after them.
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A sepia-toned vintage photo shows two men in hats and smocks with their feet secured in wooden stocks. They sit before a stone wall with foliage, above the cursive caption, "In the Stocks again."
#EasterMonday 🐰
The Welsh Easter Tradition of 'Stocsio' ⛓️
"....pull y'ir comrades out of bed, put them y'stocks & holding up one of y'ir legs, pour a pail of water down it."
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#Wales #History
#FolkloreSunday
Shortly after his birth, the infant son of Rhiannon and Pwyll, Lord of Dyfed, is stolen away by some unseen creature of the night.
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Pasg Hapus - Happy Easter
Robin Goch yn ymdrochi yn y pwll yn yr ardd ddoe
A Robin bathing in the pond in the garden yesterday
#BirdsSeenin2026
Cariad mawr o Gymru!
❤️🏴
Before I visited I had only seen the walls in poorly scaled pictures so I assumed they were like five feet tall. Getting there and realising the actual height and length of them blew me away. So much wall!
‘Today is Good Friday.’
‘Do not chide me, I did not know. A year from today I set off from my country.’
Peredur, Trans Sioned Davies
‘Miserable wretch,’ he said, ‘you do not deserve to receive a blessing, and it won’t be of any use to you seeing that you are wearing armour on a day as exalted as this.’
‘And what day is today?’ said Peredur.
Knight in armour in a green wood
As he was travelling through the valley, he could see a rider coming towards him with the mark of a priest on him. Peredur asked for his blessing.
It was one of mine too.
My Time between Times podcast tells the tales of the magical vale of Neath this week . Here I am looking down on its wonders
