paulvigor64.bsky.social
Heretic historian (Exeter); maverick industrial archaeologist (Birmingham); archaeological landscape investigator; active researcher in UK Roman western frontier landscapes; dog dad - English Springer Spaniel; countryman born & bred.
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🎶'Oh he's a lumberjack and he's OK!'🎶
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70s AD Flavian Roman military open leat aqueduct, western frontier zone (South-West Wales), Britannia.
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Tesla will know where you went, who you may have visited?
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I LOVE a good Bara Brith! It's got to be lovely and moist!
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He's a 'Wet Leg'!
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Lovely to see a working kitchen! Home cooked is the best cooked!
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Lovely to see a working kitchen! 😊
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Poor/no field drainage: this is how famines can begin?
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I wonder if any of these tiles were relocated to St. Mary's from dissolved monastic houses?
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The Cnewr Estate farm at Crai - a former tramroad depot on the Brecon Forest Tramroad.
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Yes, they are visible from the passing armoured train. Walk down the railway trackbed towards Coelbren Junction and the brickworks buildings, kilns, etc, are on your left.
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Truely a wild and haunted landscape! Did you discover the remains of the Penwyllt Silica Brickworks alongside the former railway alignment?
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I was with Stephen Hughes and Barrie Trinder (field trip from Ironbridge Institute)
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There was some excellent Welsh early industrial landscape art on display at the National Museum of Wales, Cardiff, before Christmas.
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Back in 1995 there was a similar cache of tramroad goodies hidden beneath undergrowth on Llanfoist Wharf, including some flanged 2'3" gauge wheel sets.
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Curiously: on a crazy whim, I bought some extra large 'googly eyes' from HobbyCraft before Christmas. Your post has given me ideas! 😉
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I would add most of the early industrial Penwyllt landscape (above Craig-y-Nos) in the Upper Swansea Valley!
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I guess most archaeologists do it in boots, not scanty swimwear?
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They might be archaeologists??
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Bridge relating to the 70s Flavian advance into Wales?
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Palpatine's fingers!?
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Suggesting that a functioning Roman military aqueduct, probably designed and built by engineers from Legio II Augusta (see Dorchester,Dorset; Dolaucothi goldmines), may be observed - and paddled in - closes more doors than it opens? The Flavian western frontier zone remains a very lonely place!
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We overlook historical continuity too easily? If something is of value to coming generations/a community, it is maintained. I am studying a functioning 1st century military aqueduct in Carmarthenshire that appears to have been maintained for c.1900 years.
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An apple a day keeps the medicus legionis away!
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Near Llandovery.
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Someone 'went equipped' to commit this heritage crime? It was a feature I always introduced to friends visiting Shrewsbury.
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Have you visited East Proctor??
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That's the one - up on Hay Bluff.
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Quite by accident I find myself investigating the Romano-British Western Frontier/70s AD/CE Flavian advance into south-western Wales. It's amazing just what survives in rural Wales!
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Have you visited Hay-on-Wye in the UK? If you really love books.......
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Mellon!