I’ll be spending tomorrow on Llandudno Prom, towered over by Pen y Dinas hillfort! Pen y Dinas is an Iron Age hillfort dating back over 2000 years, located on the Great Orme, just by the ski centre. To highlight this magnificent site, I’ll be doing celtic crafts with mini roundhouse and brooch making with families […]
Join me tomorrow for hillfort-inspired family crafts as part of Venue Cymru’s Inspire Day at Penmaenmawr beach cafe. Don some bling by creating your own Celtic brooch, get your woad on with Iron Age art face paints and round up for mini roundhouse making!
Many of you will have seen the national headlines as two recent storms were the (literal) breaking point for sections of Colwyn Bay’s Victoria Pier. Colwyn Bay pier, first opened in 1900, has a long and varied history- but the recent storms are just the latest in its turbulent past. The building we see today is […]
To kick off the new year in style, I will be talking hillforts next Thursday to the Deganwy History Group. Some of you may know me as ‘Erin Hillforts’, especially if we’re connected through social media. Someone once asked me if ‘Hillforts’ really was my middle name! To be honest, I’m glad it’s not! But […]
Tune in to BBC Radio Wales THIS SATURDAY at 1.30pm to hear the first episode of Rockin’ The Gogs! This new BBC Radio Wales series, presented by Gareth ‘Gaz Top’ Jones, explores iconic rock music venues of north Wales. On Saturday 3rd September 2016, the Rockin the Gogs Premiere features The Dixieland Showbar on Colwyn […]
I am super excited to share with you a little teaser…! A brand new two-part series, Rockin The Gogs, is coming soon to BBC Radio Wales, presented by the one and only Gareth Jones and featuring yours truly – Erin Lloyd Jones – as the show’s ‘resident historian’ Rockin The Gogs Gogs is the […]
PasTimes As Wales celebrates its Year of Adventure, Snowdonia National Park is alive with activity, from zip lines through the air to underground adventures to wave surfing on a hillside… Many new and exciting attractions make use of and breathe new life into historic sites in north Wales. So whether it is zipping over an […]
Over the last few months I have been honoured to have a small part in a truly wonderful art and education project for Remembrance Sunday and Armistice Day. Over the last few months, hundreds of school children have been working with local artist Laura Stenhouse and creating their own poppies, made from recycled drinks bottles. […]
I love boats. So much so, that I arrived at my wedding reception venue in one, donning my bright purple wellies underneath my wedding dress… Boats have been a part of my life for a long time, especially as I seem to always find myself steering towards water. I grew up a stone’s throw from […]
It’s funny how something which is so day-to-day to you can sound so funny and special to others. I suppose you become immune to the weird and wonderful things the life of an archaeologist presents. I was speaking to a contractor on the phone yesterday when he asked if we could catch up today and […]