Castel Nuovo, also known as Maschio Angioino, stands proudly in front of Piazza Municipio and Naples’ city hall. Built 1279, I took this photo this October.
#Naples #Napoli #CastelNuovo #Italy #MedievalArchitecture #TravelPhotography #MedievalSky #QueenOfLostCastles
3/3
I’ll be running the Walk & Talk again soon under Swallowtail Archaeology – watch this space!
swallowtailarchaeology.co.uk
#CaergwrleCastle #MedievalSky #QueenOfLostCastles
2/3
Huge thanks to everyone who joined in. Your ideas & questions are already feeding into my current research on new contextual interpretations of the castle and its landscape. 🙌
#ArchaeologyWalk #CommunityResearch #QueenOfLostCastles
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Huge thanks to everyone who joined in. Your ideas & questions are already feeding into my current research on new contextual interpretations of the castle and its landscape. 🙌
#ArchaeologyWalk #CommunityResearch #QueenOfLostCastles
A huge thank you to everyone who joined the Cambrian Archaeological Association Walk & Talk at Caergwrle Castle, Flintshire, on Saturday 13 September with Dr Rachel Swallow 🏰 #CaergwrleCastle #MedievalCastles #HistoricWales #WelshHistory #ArchaeologyWalk #CommunityResearch #queenoflostcastles
🏰✨ Free Walk & Talk! ✨🏰
📅 Sat 13 Sept 2025 | ⏰ 2–4 pm
📍 Caergwrle Castle, Flintshire
📩 Reserve your spot: rachel@swallowtailarchaeology.co.uk
#SwallowtailArchaeology #QueenOfLostCastles #ResearchWritingReviewReach #CaergwrleCastle #WelshHistory #CastlesOfWales #LegendLadyLandscape #medievalsky
Acorns on sun-burnt August grass 🌱☀️
In medieval Britain, the oak was power itself — boundary marker, court tree, symbol of endurance and lordship. 🌳👑
#Oak #Acorns #BritishCountryside #MedievalHistory #Folklore #queenoflostcastles #medievalsky
Worn holloways, whispering sunken lanes.
A #castle nestled in the folds of its landscape.
No sound but #nature.
Time and Peace hold their breath. 😊
#MedievalWales #Castles #LandscapeDreaming #SunkenLanes #medievalsky #queenoflostcastles #legendladylandscape
My paper delivery is tomorrow, in the second part of the session, ‘Arguing about Castles’ at #IMC2025, organised by @willwyeth.bsky.social of #EnglishHeritage
#MedievalSky
#QueenOfLostCastles
Excited! 😝
#pickering #pickeringcastle #Yorkshire #pickeringcastleruins #imc #imcleeds2025 #castle #queenoflostcastles #alittlebitofheaven #swallowtailarchaeology #medievalsky
An epic staircase of water in Wiltshire. Caen Hill Locks is where history, engineering, and nature meet.
#CaenHillLocks #KennetAndAvonCanal #Wiltshire #CanalLife #UKHeritage
#QueenOfLostCastles
Historic landscapes have been central to my healing; they remind me I’m not alone in carrying the past.
If historic places support your wellbeing too, I’d love to hear how.
#QueenOfLostCastles #SwallowtailArchaeology #LegendLadyLandscape #ResearchWritingReviewReach
Just agreed to do FOUR academic book reviews for a major medieval journal.
At Swallowtail Archaeology, I take reviewing seriously — with care, critique, and clarity.
🔸 Passionate about the field
🔸 Grounded in evidence
🔸 Big on overlooked narratives
#archaeology #bookreview
#QueenOfLostCastles
Graves in the foreground, stone-walled field systems climbing the hills behind—layers of power, community, and land use written into the landscape.
#LandscapeHistory #FieldSystems #PowerAndPlace #YorkshireDales #QueenOfLostCastles #LegendLadyLandscape #ResearchWritingReviewReach #WhereWordsWork
It’s my birthday weekend! Follow me on Bluesky for castles and landscapes research!
It’s my birthday weekend! 🎉 I left Twitter/X at 1.5k++ followers for bluer skies—and landed here. Let’s beat that number! Follow for castles, lost legends & landscape magic 🏰✨ #medievalsky #queenoflostcastles #Legendladylandscape #ResearchWritingReviewReach
Always look up — and down — at historic buildings.
Simple paving outside a Grade II* hall in NE Wales, c.1600. Quiet, enduring details.
Seen anything similar? Share it.
#HistoricPaving #BuiltHeritage #ListedBuilding #WelshHistory
#QueenOfLostCastles #LegendLadyLandscape
My latest blog, courtesy of, and thanks to, @castlestudies.bsky.social
#medievalsky
#castle
#landscapes
#legendladylandscape
#QueenOfLostCastles
#SwallowtailArchaeology
#ResearchWritingReviewReach
New card, same mission.
Research I Writing I Review I Reach.
Now with a QR code — for targeted, to-the-point access to work across periods and disciplines.
For Words that Work.
#SwallowtailArchaeology #LegendLadyLandscape #QueenOfLostCastles #ResearchWritingReviewReach
Got a project that needs expert and experienced support with solid research, sharp writing, or strategic heritage advice?
DM me to see how Swallowtail Archaeology can help your work go further.
#SwallowtailArchaeology #ResearchWritingReviewReach #LegendLadyLandscape #queenoflostcastles
View of Queen’s Gare at Caernarfon Castle today, taken from the SE.
View today from the SE of #Caernarfon #Castle, #Gwynedd, #Wales
#QueenOfLostCastles
#LegendLadyLandscape
Want to know what I do for you?!
Check out Swallowtail Archaeology:
www.swallowtailarchaeology.co.uk !
#History
#Archaeology
#Heritage
#legend
#Literature
#Research
#writing
#Review
#publicengagement
#QueenOfLostCastles
#legendladylandscape
New Light on Old.
The research continues - and expands in context.
And what a joy it is!
#church #research #archaeology #architecture #history #BangorOnDee #Wales #LegendLadyLandscape #QueenOfLostCastles
It’s International Women’s Day.
Find your passion, fellow international women, and follow it to the sky! 💜
#queenoflostcastles
#legendladylandscape
#internationalwomensday
@britishlibrary.bsky.social
Almost ready for publication: one blog, one short article, one queen, ongoing research, new interpretation. Exciting times!
[Photo by me: Queen Eleanor de Castile, Medieval Women exhibition, British Library, February 2025].
#queenoflostcastles
#legendladylandscape
The Real Mortimer History society:
Join me on my talk on Eleanor of Castile's connections to #Caernarfon #Castle and to a lost Marcher castle at Overton-on-Dee.
See full programme and book tickets at lnkd.in/e_rNxDc9
#queenoflostcastles
#legendladylandscape
#medievalsky
