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Erin Lloyd Jones

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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The final pics from our Llyn getaway staycation la

The final pics from our Llyn getaway staycation last month - and what a view 😍 Al fresco lunch at Porth Tocyn hotel. Originally the manager's house for a local lead mine in the 1800's, the building has been a hotel run by the same family since 1948. And the food is gorgeous!! Well worth a 2 mile drive out of Abersoch 🥰

Gwesty Ty Newydd, Aberdaron for our anniversary me

Gwesty Ty Newydd, Aberdaron for our anniversary meal. This time with a little one in tow! The hotel was once one of many inns in Aberdaron, catering for pilgrims as they made their way to Ynys Enlli, Bardsey Island - the Island of 20,000 Saints - and since the middle ages it is said that three pilgrimages to Bardsey equal one to Rome! #Aberdaron #Llyn #LlynPeninsula

Walk to Porthdinllaen and Ty Coch pub on the beach

Walk to Porthdinllaen and Ty Coch pub on the beach, with stunning blue skies followed by a short sharp rain storm 😅 Trwyn (nose) Porthdinllaen - the tip of the peninsular - is a 2,500 year old promontory fort, and also a golf course. Both mummy and daddy catered for 🤠🏌‍♂️ Plus beer and prosecco. Win win win! 🍾🥂🍻

Our 7th (copper) wedding anniversary. And our firs

Our 7th (copper) wedding anniversary. And our first as a family of 3 👨‍👩‍👧 A soggy start but that didn't stop the fun! 🍾🥂

Poppy's first sandcastle 🏰 🏖🪣🥰

Poppy's first sandcastle 🏰 🏖🪣🥰

Walk along the Wales Coast Path from the cottage t

Walk along the Wales Coast Path from the cottage to Porth Widlin, Porth Ferin, Porth Iago and Porthor, also known as 'Whistling Sands' due to the sound the sand makes when you walk on it - it squeaks! Spotted a few seals along the way too 🦭🏖
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#porthor #whistlingsands #llyn #llynpeninsula #wales #walescoastpath

Our first family holiday ❤ We stayed in an old W

Our first family holiday ❤ We stayed in an old Welsh longhouse not far from Aberdaron, Llyn. A longhouse, or Ty Hir, would have traditionally housed both humans and livestock, in different ends of the house - a single, low, oblong building. The one we stayed in had been modernised somewhat, including a jacuzzi! 🤩🍾🥂 The nearest cows we had were in the neighbouring field, which were very interested in Poppy 🐄 But we did also spot a hare and a barn owl during our stay! 🐇 🦉
#dioni #llyn #aberdaron

The final episode of this year’s Weatherman Walk

The final episode of this year’s Weatherman Walking airs this Friday 7.35pm and I’m going for gold! I learn more about Wales' very own gold rush in the hills of Meirionydd. Read more, and about other Welsh gold stories including the Royal Family and a 3,500 year old gold cape, in my latest blog idigarchaeology.co.uk/gold/

We can confirm that the #LaburnumArch at #BodnantG

We can confirm that the #LaburnumArch at #BodnantGardens is blooming (and blooming marvellous!) 🏵🌼🏵🌼🏵 #BodnantLaburnumArch

New blog post! "Several words spring to mind when

New blog post! "Several words spring to mind when I think about the wonderful women in Wales' past: strength, courage, determination, intelligence, skill. But one word often left out when it comes to the two 'Ladies of Llangollen' is the word 'love'..." Read more here: https://idigarchaeology.co.uk/ladies/ 💑

We've had the best day! Thank you everyone for Pop

We've had the best day! Thank you everyone for Poppy's birthday wishes ❤ more pics to follow 🥰

So there we have it. 12 months. At 1.12am on 26th

So there we have it. 12 months. At 1.12am on 26th May 2020, during the first lockdown of the Covid-19 pandemic, little Poppy Gwenllian entered the world (following a failed epidural and just gas and air..!) at 9lbs exactly. What a wonderful thing to have come out of 2020. And what a fun year we have made it. Our little lockdown baby ❤❤❤

In exactly 1 hour and 12 minutes, Poppy will be ex

In exactly 1 hour and 12 minutes, Poppy will be exactly 1 year old. I can't believe she has been in our lives a whole year. And what a year. But it has gone so quickly. She is an absolute joy and we are so lucky to have her in our lives ❤ #lockdownbaby #happy1stbirthday

Trip to @ntattinghampark today with Nana to see th

Trip to @ntattinghampark today with Nana to see the walled gardens and some of the rooms which have reopened! Some sections of the garden walls are hollow, creating flues to carry warm air and smoke from furnaces around which would have helped exotic fruits to grow along the walls, protected them from frost and helped them to ripen. But walled gardens were not just created to provide a sheltered environment for plants. They were also a way to hide away the utilitarian, productive gardens, full of produce for the house, out of sight and away from the modelled, landscaped pleasure grounds favouring the 'natural look', which were all the rage in the late 18th century. #didyouknow #history #fridayfacts

12 months ago was my due date. And it was HOT! 🥵 Pic 2 is me on my birthing ball in the garden 😆 but in true Robinson fashion, Poppy arrived a bit late. Actually, no, we're never late, just 'time optimistic'... 😉 12 months on, and what a little star she is 🌟 🚲

Fab to meet up for lunch with my cousin Jonny and

Fab to meet up for lunch with my cousin Jonny and his lovely wife Hannah, as they passed by en route to a Welsh mini-break earlier this week. And all done in my lunch break! The benefits of working from home 🏡 🙌 and the sun came out for *most* of it 🌦☔😆

Gave an online talk to Llandyrnog and Llangwyfan h

Gave an online talk to Llandyrnog and Llangwyfan history society this evening all about some wonderful women! And speaking of which, Grandma is babysitting as a special treat for her birthday 🥰

What a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon.

What a wonderful way to spend a Sunday afternoon. Friends, food and a fantastic view 🏰🏞 The impressive building is a restored 19th-century manor house with breathtaking views down the Conwy estuary towards Tal-y-Cafn 😍

Definitely a daddy's girl... #johndeere 🚜 Such

Definitely a daddy's girl... #johndeere 🚜 Such a fun time at Manorafon Farm with Arlo and his mummy @lifeatnumber28 playing on tractors, quad bikes and meeting lots of animals (excuse the emergency back-up outfit... 💩 🤦‍♀️)

We've decided to binge watch this absolute classic

We've decided to binge watch this absolute classic from the beginning 🤩

When Poppy finally met Katysnail! Such a gorgeous

When Poppy finally met Katysnail! Such a gorgeous afternoon in Chester, with lunch at @old.harkers.arms, a canal walk past King Charles Tower (where King Charles I stood during the English Civil War, watching his troops being defeated at the Battle of Rowton Moor), the tiny Bridge of Sighs (where prisoners would cross across the canal from prison to the Bluecoat Chapel to be read their last rites, built in 1700s), down gorgeous Georgian streets, into the Abbey Square and the cathedral gardens. Then a stroll around Grosvenor Park and a trip to see Chester Uni's fascinating multi-period excavation with @dr_cas83 ⛏ what a day! 🥰 I ❤ Chester

Lovely little walk along Duke's Drive yesterday mo

Lovely little walk along Duke's Drive yesterday morning, after exercise class. It was originally a carriage drive to Eaton Hall, owned by the Duke of Westminster, just outside Chester. The fancy gates were made by Swindley’s of Handbridge, who also built the famous Eastgate Clock ⏰ Overleigh Lodge was designed by the same architect who extended and rebuilt Sandringham House for Edward VII as Prince of Wales 🏰

Poppy far more interested in blueberries than watc

Poppy far more interested in blueberries than watching mummy on TV... 🤣

OH MY GOD! I'm getting emotional watching Les Mis

OH MY GOD! I'm getting emotional watching Les Mis songs on The One Show and SO EXCITED for theatre to reopen. Goodness knows how actors and theatre technical crew are feeling. WE'VE MISSED YOU!! #theatre #theshowsmustgoon

Not far from home in this week's #WeathermanWalkin

Not far from home in this week's #WeathermanWalking! Read more about our adventures in #Llandudno with some other familiar faces, on BBC1 Wales Friday night, 7.35pm, here: idigarchaeology.co.uk/weatherman-walking-llandudno/

Poppy and I went to our first 1st birthday party t

Poppy and I went to our first 1st birthday party this weekend! A fantastic, socially distanced, special celebration, with bouncy castle and lots of animals too! Wonderful 🥰

What wonderful ways to spend my last day before re

What wonderful ways to spend my last day before returning to work. Breakfast at the hidden cabin in the woods with mummies and babies, then Ti a Fi session (asleep... 😴🙄😅) and a visit to Greenfield Valley Heritage Park with Nana and Graunty Marjorie ❤ #maternityleave #endofanera #whatayear #lockdownbaby #lockdownmaternityleave

Thank you @thehairloftrhuddlan ✂️💇‍♀️

Thank you @thehairloftrhuddlan ✂️💇‍♀️

Whoop!! What a bloody year! So grateful to have ha

Whoop!! What a bloody year! So grateful to have had this, and just before Poppy (born in the first lockdown) turns 1! Feeling totes emosh 🥺 thank you NHS ❤❤❤

Poppy and I met up with Fliss and Teddy for a love

Poppy and I met up with Fliss and Teddy for a lovely day out at Tommy Shelby's House 🧢 Owned by the Warburton family since the Norman Conquest, and undergoing a number of changes since, interestingly the house was redesigned in the 1830s with strict instructions to the architect to keep it as historically accurate to the house's Elizabethan history as possible. Isn't it gorgeous 😍 another fun fact - the gardens were the site of one of the first herbaceous borders planted in England! Gorgeous day out and a fantastic place to meet up with fabulous friends 🥰
#lockdownbabies #peakyblinders #tommyshelby #arleyhall #cheshire

Poppy and I had the most fantastic time with frien

Poppy and I had the most fantastic time with friends at Manorafon Farm Park in Abergele! 💖💙💖 The farm is actually located just inside the original grounds (and just by the gatehouse) of Gwrych Castle, a stunning Georgian castle ruin overlooking the sea, made famous recently by being home to the I'm a Celeb ITV series! The farm is brilliant for kids. The babies loved playing together! ❤🤩

Seven years 🍾🥂👰‍♀️🤵‍♂️💒

Seven years 🍾🥂👰‍♀️🤵‍♂️💒🏰 And then there were 3 👨‍👩‍👧 #happyanniversary

Met a horse today with an actual handlebar moustac

Met a horse today with an actual handlebar moustache... 👨🐴😆 #horsesofinstagram #moustache #poirot Herc-mule Poirot? Would be very happy to hear more horse/tache puns. Please do your worst 👍🙌

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