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The female Archaeologist from Wales with a passion for the British Isles

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I am a photo fanatic with a real passion for exploring and discovering some weird and wonderful things.

I am a photo fanatic with a real passion for exploring and discovering some weird and wonderful things.

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UK viewers! Fancy some culture (and coal mining!)

UK viewers! Fancy some culture (and coal mining!) with your cornflakes? Tune in to BBC2 tomorrow morning, 8.30am 🌞 🍳🪨 #WeathermanWalking #onthebeeb #bbc

Poppy's first football lesson, with @kickitsports

Poppy's first football lesson, with @kickitsports - an all round amazing weekend for football wasn't it 🥰⚽️ #lionesses

PART TWO! Follow this link: https://youtu.be/WisdS

PART TWO! Follow this link: https://youtu.be/WisdSe9us8o to watch part two of my exploration of an 800 year old Chapel ruin in the hills! (And if you haven't already, you can find and watch part one here: https://youtu.be/p7mSGs7YIU4)

Five years ago today I submitted the beast👩‍🏫 👩‍🎓🤠📚 #PHinisheDit #whatsupdoc You can read more about it, plus some snippets, on my website here: https://idigarchaeology.co.uk/hillforts-phd/

A shout out to this absolute babe - who has had my

A shout out to this absolute babe - who has had my back for over 25 years - on #internationalfriendshipday ❤ p.s. check her and her gorgeous family out on BBC Wales's Snowdonia: A year on the farm 🤩 #famousfriends

New vlog/video! Join me on an exploration of an 80

New vlog/video! Join me on an exploration of an 800 year old ruined chapel in the hills, and get tips for what clues to look for within the walls 👀 🕵️‍♀️ 🤠 visit https://youtu.be/p7mSGs7YIU4 for PART ONE!
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#archaeology #archaeologist #history #historian #historygirls #church #chapel #ruins #medieval #ruin #architecture #historyhunter #walks #walking #countryside #discover #exllore #northwales #wales #cymru #clwydianrange #ruthin #moelfamau #mold #denbighshire

New blog/video! Hear about (and watch!) my recent

New blog/video! Hear about (and watch!) my recent adventure to find a 4000 year old Bronze Age barrow cemetery! http://idigarchaeology.co.uk/bronze-age-cemetery/
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#clwydianrange #northwales #prestatyn #rhyl #snowdonia #video #vlog #blog #archaeology #history #archaeologist #historygirls #travel #wales #bronzeage #prehistory #walking #publicfootpath #osmaps

The best ever game of hide and seek ❤ with excel

The best ever game of hide and seek ❤ with excellent filming skills by uncle Andy

What a gorgeous evening this was, watching @ivan_c

What a gorgeous evening this was, watching @ivan_campo_music live in the woods at @woodlandskillscentre 🌲🎶🌳

New video/vlog! Want to find out more about a 4000

New video/vlog! Want to find out more about a 4000 year old cemetery in north Wales?! Visit https://youtu.be/t07fz5uFcQA to watch where my adventures took me yesterday evening 🤠 and please subscribe! 🤩
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#archaeology #history #bronzeage #prehistory #prehistoric #archaeologist #historian #northwales #prestatyn #rhyl #flintshire #clwydianrange #snowdonia #walks #walking #countryside #outdoors #explore

Oh how we loved Wrexham's new science museum @xplo

Oh how we loved Wrexham's new science museum @xploresciencecentre 🧑‍🔬 plus they have a special toddler day, with science-based messy play, every so often on a Friday. Really highly recommended. Not only for the tunes... #soundon🔊#metal 🧑‍🎤

Poppy loves to dance! Especially to her favourite

Poppy loves to dance! Especially to her favourite band @oldtimesailors ⚓😍 this was at one of our locals in the lovely village of Nannerch a few weeks ago. The name of the village is thought to come from the Welsh 'Nant Erch', meaning colourful stream - how gorgeous is that! The pub is great too - it dates from 1780 and used to be a butchers as well as the pub. You can still see the meat hooks above the bar! #villagelife

UK viewers - I'm on the tellybox in 15 mins! Weath

UK viewers - I'm on the tellybox in 15 mins! Weatherman Walking is on BBC2 this morning at 8.20am, and this week we are in #Snowdonia!

Open Farm Sunday, at one of our local farms, was b

Open Farm Sunday, at one of our local farms, was brilliant! Lots of fun with friends @sarahjbooth1983 and @sjwynne51 and we met so many animals too!

We ran away to the circus! Well, for an evening...

We ran away to the circus! Well, for an evening... 😆 and it was epic! #Sabotage by #nofitstatecircus is still touring the UK, so check it out if you can! 🎪🤸‍♂️🤹🤸‍♀️🤹‍♀️🤸🤹‍♂️

Caerwys agricultural show 🐄🐎🐏🚜💃🍾

Caerwys agricultural show 🐄🐎🐏🚜💃🍾🥂

The birthplace of modern Welsh - Dolbelydr. Now a

The birthplace of modern Welsh - Dolbelydr. Now a @landmarktrust property (which you can holiday in!), it was once owned by Henry Salesbury who wrote his Grammatica Britannica here in 1593. It was the first attempt to impose a formal grammatical structure on the Welsh language, feared the language may disappear completely following the insistence by the Tudor monarchs that English was the official language of government.
The house is hidden away down a little farm track, not far from where we live, and is only open to the public on a few days a year. September dates have just been released for booking! It was restored from a really astonishingly derelict state, but has the most gorgeous original features and hidden secrets including these figures carved in to its wooden screen. Can you see the early 19th Century soldier with his feather in his cap?
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#dolbelydr #landmarktrust #medieval #history #historichouse #restoration #wales #denbighshire #cefnmeiriadog #stasaph #house #northwales #cymru #welsh #cymraeg #graffiti #historicalgraffiti

Feel very lucky to have finally visited the beauti

Feel very lucky to have finally visited the beautiful @theoldgrocery - a former butchers and grocery store - in Hawarden and it was absolutely worth the wait ❤ I can't begin to tell you how amazing black pepper honeycomb is!! 😋 the bad news is that this is its last week open 😭 good luck for the future to the team, I wish I'd been able to visit sooner 🥂🍾

Finally went on the Llandudno big wheel a few week

Finally went on the Llandudno big wheel a few weeks ago, with the lovely @debbie.waddington_ 🎡 The original 'Ferris wheel' was designed and constructed by 'George Washington Gale Ferris Jr.' in 1893 in Chicago. However, 'big wheels' have been around for centuries - there are descriptions and etchings of them from the early 1600's! I think this one over the prom and pier in Llandudno may be quite a bit sturdier and safer though 😅 and I bet the views from there this week were even more spectacular! 🌞
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#history #conwy #hanes #llandudno #greatorme #wales #cymru #llandudnoprom #bigwheel #ferriswheel #llandudnopier

No, this isn't Bodnant... did you know that there

No, this isn't Bodnant... did you know that there is another Laburnum Arch in Conwy County - and this one may actually be the longest in the UK! This laburnum arch at Happy Valley, Llandudno, has been constructed in an almost cruciform shape, with additions and off-shoots as you follow it around the pathway. Sitting on the Great Orme, overlooking Llandudno Pier, Happy Valley is Conwy's oldest park, created in the late 19th Century. The laburnum flowers for a few weeks in June and is definitely worth a visit - especially if you want to escape the crowds that flock to Bodnant!!
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#history #conwy #archaeology #hiddengems #hiddenhistory #llandudno #greatorme #haulfre #wales #cymru #tea #bodnantgardens #bodnant #garden #park #parkhistory #gardenhistory #llandudnopier #LaburnumArch #laburnum #happyvalley

High above Llandudno, on the Great Orme, you'll fi

High above Llandudno, on the Great Orme, you'll find Haulfre Gardens and tea room. Originally created by the owner of Bodnant Hall and Bodnant Garden, it was officially opened as a public park by David Lloyd George in 1929. The house here was once owned by Tommy Lipton of Lipton's Tea!
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#history #conwy #archaeology #hiddengems #hiddenhistory #llandudno #greatorme #haulfre #wales #cymru #tea #bodnantgardens #bodnant #garden #park #parkhistory #gardenhistory

This isn't a church you can drive to... Llangelyni

This isn't a church you can drive to... Llangelynin Old Church sits almost 1000ft above its nearest village and dates back to the 12th Century. Although quiet today, this was once a busier place, where routes merged on their way to Ynys Enlli, Bardsey Island, on pilgrimage, and drovers frequented. You can still see the foundations of an old Inn just outside the walled churchyard. You'll also spot St Celynin's holy well, just inside the walls (which had the reputation to heal sick children, and now home to a colony of newts) and the square footings of an even earlier chapel 'Capel Eirianws' right outside the church itself. Inside, you'll find the Capel Meibion (men's chapel, to the left of the altar - keeping them separate from the other attendees..!) and some distinctive wall writing. Images on chapel walls helped parishioners understand Latin services. And remind them what would happen if they didn't behave... ☠
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#history #conwy #archaeology #llangelynin #llangelyninoldchurch #churchhistory #hiddengems #hiddenhistory #chapel #welshchapel #pilgrimage #pilgimsway #wales #cymru #conwyvalley

Poppy's christening - the after party 🥳🎂

Poppy's christening - the after party 🥳🎂

Poppy's christening (@martinvaughanweddings 📸)

Poppy's christening (@martinvaughanweddings 📸)

A few highlights from Poppy's christening back in

A few highlights from Poppy's christening back in March 💒 photos by @martinvaughanweddings

Almost exactly 2 years since we all met, online, l

Almost exactly 2 years since we all met, online, locked down, with newborns, on a Rhythm Time course on zoom, a few of us mummies with our now-toddlers met up again, in person, and had a fab time at Imagination Lane. So glad we are all still in touch, so lucky to have them, and so is Poppy! 👭👫👬🧑‍🤝‍🧑💏

A few late Platty Jubes weekend shots from village

A few late Platty Jubes weekend shots from village shows, a few pubs, lots of family, friends and entertainment, colour-coordinated outfits, and seeing Poppy's entry to the village children's picture competition (a picture of the Queen, to feature on a beaker) on display 😍 #proudmummy

You may recognise it from the last series of #ImaC

You may recognise it from the last series of #ImaCeleb filmed in North Wales - Mostyn Hall is only open to the public a few days each year. 'Mostyn' sound familiar? Yes, they built and own most of Llandudno (know Mostyn Street?). This beautiful house is 19th and 17th century but has 15th century origins - and a shed load of history in between too. Check it out if/when you can. Very lucky that this was my third visit. I was once invited to afternoon tea here! 🤓🤩 this time I had time for a quick visit to the nearby Mynydd Mostyn dairy for a cheeky coffee ☕ (although very tempted by their delicious self-serve milkshakes 😋)

Just a few (and just a few of us in the pics!) fro

Just a few (and just a few of us in the pics!) from the lovely lady Sadie's Liverpool hen dooo. And yes, we escaped! With 12 mins to spare! And by order of the peaky blinders... 🧢🥂🍾 too much fun to take many photos of all the antics (that's not a hint for anyone to upload any karaoke videos though, thanks... 😳😅)

#eisteddfodyrurdd x2 - watching cousin Kitty perfo

#eisteddfodyrurdd x2 - watching cousin Kitty perform (REALLY well, da iawn!!) and then back again for fun with Mr Urdd and friends, mainly dancing like a maniac 🥰 The Urdd National Eisteddfod is an annual Welsh-language festival of literature, music and performing arts, and is thought to be Europe's largest youth festival - and this year it was on our doorstep in Llandyrnog, celebrating its 100th year no less!!

Although we're on a family holiday without daddy d

Although we're on a family holiday without daddy due to work 😥 and my own daddy never got to meet this gorgeous bundle of joy, we have had a wonderful day. Happy father's day to all of you - to those there, to those who have missed someone, to those who wish for someone, to all of you 💙 and most of all from us two to you @rggolfacademy1 xxx

All three delighted with and engrossed in their @j

All three delighted with and engrossed in their @justinfletcherofficial Mr Tumble magazines, following a performance with the man himself plus the outstanding @bbcphilharmonic at @bridgewaterhall - what a fantastic day with @laurenclonson @josekiwi29 and their beautiful boys 🥰🎶🎺🥁

Poppy Gwenllian, by Aunty @becrobsw 💮❤

Poppy Gwenllian, by Aunty @becrobsw 💮❤

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