#CapeliCymru #ChapelCensus2026 #WelshHeritage #RCAHMW

1st Edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map  of Flint c.1871

1st Edition Ordnance Survey 25-inch map  of Rhuddlan c.1871

Reminder: Closing date this week!
Wanted: TWO Georeferencing Assistants! Join the pioneering team making Wales’s #historic #maps available #online at #RCAHMW – based @NLW in #Aberystwyth

Find out more: zurl.co/y3iCn

Poster Gweithdy Enwau Lleoedd Craig y Nos.

Poster digwyddiad Capeli Cymru yn Rhuthun.

Poster digwyddiad Dr Toby Driver.

Poster Fforwm Addoldai Cymru.

O Enwau Lleoedd i gapeli a hanes yr Oes Haearn, mae ein digwyddiadau ym mis Mawrth yn dathlu treftadaeth gyfoethog Cymru. Perffaith ar gyfer gwirfoddolwyr, ymchwilwyr, a chefnogwyr hanes lleol!
Manylion ac archebion: zurl.co/zmtu7

#TreftadaethCymreig #RCAHMW #ArchifauCymru

From Place-Names to chapels and Iron Age history, our March events celebrate Wales’s rich heritage. Perfect for volunteers, researchers, and local history fans!
Details & bookings:zurl.co/bV0vE
#WelshHeritage #RCAHMW #ArchivesWales

Recording Welsh Place Names Workshop at Craig y Nos.

Welsh Places of Worship Forum.

Poster for Dr Toby Driver event.

Capeli Cymru event poster at Rhuthun.

Join us this March for Welsh heritage events! From Place-Names talks to Capeli Cymru workshops and Iron Age lectures, there’s something for everyone. Share, learn, connect!
Full details & bookings: zurl.co/8GfGx

#WelshHeritage #RCAHMW #LocalHistory

Poster Gweithdy Enwau Lleoedd Craig y Nos.

Poster digwyddiad Capeli Cymru yn Rhuthun.

Poster digwyddiad Dr Toby Driver.

Poster Fforwm Addoldai Cymru.

Ymunwch â ni ym mis Mawrth ar gyfer digwyddiadau treftadaeth Cymru! O sgyrsiau Enwau Lleoedd i weithdai Capeli Cymru a darlithoedd Oes yr Haearn, mae rhywbeth i bawb. Rhannwch, dysgwch, cysylltwch!
Manylion llawn ac archebu: zurl.co/EkEIi

#treftadaethcymru #RCAHMW #HanesLleol

A winter view of a chamber tomb on a rocky headland

It wouldn't be #StandingStoneSunday & Dydd Gwyl Dewi Sant without a picture of the incredible chambered tomb of Coetan Arthur on St David's Head 🥰

Browse our splendid #RCAHMW 3D model here: skfb.ly/pEKnE

📷 My own, 2023

Druids and Furies by Dr Toby Driver Finding the Iron Age people of Ynys Môn and north-west Wales

I'm delighted to be lecturing at Oriel Môn/Anglesey Gallery in March about the incredible Iron Age remains on the island, including about recent work with @richardosgood.bsky.social at Llyn Cerrig Bach & our #RCAHMW recording of coastal forts.

See you there!

www.orielmon.org/en/events/dr...

A series of rings parching out on a hilltop

It's true 💯 - we're all only here for #HillfortsWednesday 🥳🛖

The remarkable Pentre Camp near Llanfair Caereinion in north Powys is highly concentric with 3 lines of defence: perhaps for prestige or to mark it as a special locale..? 🤔

📷 Mobile phone during #RCAHMW aerial photography, May 2025

English – Coflein

Is it a monster? Or a badger with a hangover? Either way, this little creature was carved into stone at All Saints’ Church, Gresford. The church was mentioned in the Domesday book, but was almost wholly rebuilt in the 15th century
📸RCAHMW, October 2009
zurl.co/GDrhc
#EYAMonsters #rcahmw #coflein

Gyrn Castle, Flintshire

Gyrn Castle, Flintshire

Gyrn Castle, Flintshire – one of Wales’s most picturesque Gothic Revival castle-houses – has featured on @bbcnewsi.bsky.social after going on the market for £2m.
Built 1817–1824, it reflects the Romantic era’s love of history & nature.
zurl.co/1vb1j
#Wales #RCAHMW #Coflein

A standing stone at dawn with the sun rising, looking out to sea

Back to lovely Skomer Island next week, weather permitting 🤞🥰

For #StandingStoneSunday the enigmatic Harold Stone at sunrise in April 2025, looking back towards the mainland 😮

Discover more here: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/305372

#WTSWW #RCAHMW

#HillfortsWednesday a view of the dramatically-sited Flimston Bay coastal promontory fort in south Pembrokeshire (centre)

The fort is flanked by awe-inspiring limestone coastal scenery of arches & stacks, adding to the drama of the setting in prehistory 🤩

📷 11th Aug - mobile phone #RCAHMW

A limestone cliff coastline at sunset

Back in glorious south Pembrokeshire tonight for a working week of incredible archaeology with #OpNightingale & #RCAHMW survey buddy Lou Barker

📷 The stunning coastline at Flimston, looking towards the Green Bridge of Wales 🤩

My thanks to @moleymole.bsky.social for posting new photos of the temporary measures on #Skomer to protect areas of path erosion around two of its most visited prehistoric monuments 👌

The platform at the Harold Stone was first noticed during our #RCAHMW Sept fieldwork & guided walks in 2024

Pwllheli harbour in the shape of a dolphin

🐬 'Pwllheli ‘Dolphin’ ! Captured by Dr Toby Driver & first noticed by Rhys Jones, this stunning natural illusion is formed by breakwaters, sandbanks & shrubland near Afon Erch.

#WalesFromAbove #PwllheliDolphin #RCAHMW
@drtobydriver.bsky.social @visitwales.bsky.social @pwllheli.bsky.social

Lou Barker - surveyor - stands on the edge of a collapsing cliff looking back up the Bristol Channel from sully island

First visit for me last week to the incredible tidal Sully Island in south Wales last week, for #RCAHMW survey ☀️

Two #wrecks & a large promontory fort jutting into the Bristol Channel - with a round barrow at its tip 😮. An incredible liminal place 👌

#archaeology

coflein.gov.uk/en/site/300996

A hand holding a piece of flint with various flake removals

#FindsFriday Prehistoric flint artefacts can be pretty scarce on Welsh Islands, but during #RCAHMW fieldwork last week on Skomer Island we collected this whopper of a blade core - one of the larger Neo/Bronze Age artefacts so far discovered - clearly made on good quality pebble flint 🥰😮

Louise Barker surveying in control points around a small stone chamber with sea views behind

#RCAHMW surveying in progress last week on one of Skomer Island's smallest structures - a tiny prehistoric corbelled chamber standing alongside North Stream, originally visited by Prof John Evans of Cardiff University for his 1980s study

#Pembrokeshire

@rcahmwales.bsky.social

📷 My own

Wide open moorland with two low upright stones in foreground with a slab beyond

#TombTuesday A sub-megalithic site on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, discovered during our #RCAHMW fieldwork a decade ago. Two orthostats flank a large earthfast slab, on a prominent hill on the north of the island.

In care of Wildlife Trust for South & West Wales

📷 My own, last week

A standing stone at sunset looking out over bracken covered islands

Good evening from beautiful Skomer Island, #Pembrokeshire, where the sun has finally come out & is casting long shadows over the Early Bronze Age Harold Stone, after another full day of #RCAHMW survey & photogrammetry.

Have a fabulous weekend everyone ☀️☀️

Toby, Lou & Julian from the Royal Commission standing next to the Harold Stone, Skomer

The first day of survey for #RCAHMW on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, working closely with the Wildlife Trust for South & West Wales and Cadw.

Just perfect weather for archaeological recording 👌☀️

@rcahmwales.bsky.social

Toby & Lou fully laden with survey kit at a coastal site

Off to survey one of Ynys Môn's/Anglesey's least known coastal promontory forts for #HillfortsWednesday - Ynys y Fydlyn defended islet managed by @nattrustarch.bsky.social - with #RCAHMW survey buddy Lou.

Beautiful weather for it! ☀️😊👌

Read more here: coflein.gov.uk/en/site/54410

Castell Trefadog with a Phantom drone

Lou Barker RCAHMW surveying Castell Trefadog

Interpretation panel showing reconstruction drawing

A brown coastal hillock with surveyor on the summit

A fine day for #RCAHMW #GNSS & #drone photogrammetry of Castell Trefadog medieval defended settlement on #Anglesey - cleared by #Cadw with new access & signage. Possibly occupied by Irish #Vikings in C11th.

Good on-site interpretation by @henebtwa.bsky.social & Cadw.

@angleseyhistory.bsky.social

English – Coflein

I'd recommend it. I updated the main #RCAHMW record for it back in 2022

coflein.gov.uk/en/site/100866

Ah - happy memories of aerial photography in County Wexford & Waterford for the amazing EU 🇪🇺 CHERISH Project in autumn 2017, for #RCAHMW & @discoveryprogramme.bsky.social An incredible coastline, not unlike Pembrokeshire & Cornwall from the air 🛩️

Dr Andy Wigley lecturing

Dr Neil Wilkin lecturing

A dramatic banner with standing stones

A spiral carved stone

A real privilege to be asked to speak at this morning's Sun & Fire dayschool on Shropshire & Borderlands prehistory for #RCAHMW alongside Dr Andy Wigley of Shropshire CC & Dr Neil Wilkin of the #BritishMuseum - all rounded off with a visit to the brilliant Sun & Fire exhibition 👌

Screen shot showing evocative prehistoric landscape advertising dayschool

I'm really looking forward to speaking at this event in #Shrewsbury, Shropshire in just over a week's time & exploring aspects of the Iron Age in the Welsh Borderlands

#AncientBlueSky 🛖🏺 #RCAHMW

www.shropshiremuseums.org.uk/event/sun-an...

Glamorgan FHS AGM followed by presentation - Place Names of Wales Project GFHS AGM (primarily for members) followed by a presentation on the Place Names of Wales Project by RCAHMIW

Our AGM - for members only - is next Saturday (1st March) at 1pm via Zoom, followed by a talk at 2pm (free and open to all) from James January-McCann of #RCAHMW about the Place Names of Wales Project: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/glamorgan-... #Genealogy #FamilyHistory #Glamorgan #Wales #PlaceNames

Early air photo of large rocky hillfort on north Wales coast

#HillfortsWednesday The truly mighty hilltop fortress of Braich y Dinas, which once dominated the north Wales coast at Penmaenmawr

This 1924 air photo shows some of the 90 huts under excavation as quarrying worked to destroy the fort

RAF 1924, in #RCAHMW collections

coflein.gov.uk/en/site/56668