Mark Walters

@mark-walters.bsky.social

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Archaeologist at Heneb: The Trust for Welsh Archaeology. Into: Sound & Music, Photography, Botany, Dragonflies, Palaeontology, Astronomy, Art, LiDAR, Ancient History, Numismatics, Gaming, Border Collies

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 22h

As always, a fascinating podcast episode with Dendrochronoligist Dr. Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social on her work with Scottish woodlands and historic timber buildings podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/h...

[HBP#22] - Coralie Mills - Discovering Scotland's Past with Dendrochronology

Podcast Episode · Heritage Buildings Podcast · 18/11/2025 · 1h 18m

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 1d

Few things make Lola put the ball down and chill but an episode of BBC Radio 3 Unclassified presented by @elizabethalker.bsky.social usually does the trick 🎶 Listen here… www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 1d

It’s rare I have one that matches the storyline so perfectly 🙂

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 1d

From my bookmark collection I found the perfect one for a read of Joe Hill’s King Sorrow novel - matches the dragon head on the chapters perfectly and the dragon scale embossed cover too 🙂

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 1d

Nice find of a large defended Roman villa in Margam Park, South Wales. I wouldn’t be surprised if occupation on that one went into the 5th/6th c. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Margam park Roman villa find could be 'Port Talbot's Pompeii'

The largest Roman villa ever found in Wales lies less than a metre under Margam Country Park.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 2d

A nice example of acoustic archaeology discussed in this episode with the reconstruction of Linlithgow Palace in 3D and its acoustic space.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d

For the early music fans amongst us the BBC Radio 3 Early Music Show at 5pm tonight looks at music from renaissance Scotland. If you miss it you can listen again on BBC Sounds here www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/brand...

BBC Sounds - The Early Music Show - Available Episodes

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d

Well the acting is a bit off and there are comedy moments throughout. A different light-hearted approach, but not a great addition to the numerous Dracula adaptations.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d

Sunrise through frosted glass

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d

Two more to add to the ‘Lost and Found’ photographic series of things lost along the Montgomeryshire Canal towpath. We’ve seen all sorts of things over the years: usually hats & gloves, but also walking sticks, torches, hair clips, glasses, dogs name tags. Rarely coins now after contactless payment

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d

Fog is starting to lift here now

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d

Looking forward to a read of this 2026 debut novel by Liam Higginson. A folk horror tale set on a farm in the Eryri mountains where something from prehistory is discovered and awakened.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 4d

Hardly any snow here. It was actually melting at midnight. Lola likes eating it though 🙂

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 5d

Snow has started and the wind is building up. Might have a few cm by morning if it hasn’t already turned to rain

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 5d

Think I’ll give the new Luc Besson version of Dracula a watch over the weekend. I’m a big fan of his earlier films. I’m not bothered that it doesn’t follow the Bram Stoker version closely, there have been plenty of those, it’s time for something different.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 5d

Essential version now and my favourite translation

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6d

Yes he might have 👍

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6d

Ahh yes, the mix up with Purcell as Lawes didn’t write ‘funeral music’

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 6d

I always wondered where William Lawes fell during the battle of Rowton Heath outside Chester. Acknowledged as the most exciting & innovative composer in the reign of Charles 1st it seems he ended up in a mass battle grave east of the city. Excellent recent release of his music here amzn.eu/d/ejVmV1N

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 7d

Lola getting as close to the warmth of the stove as she can 🙂

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 7d

Never realised you are already retired. Looking forward to being more creative with photography and music and getting out for more walks 👍

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 7d

Looking forward to retiring in March 2027. Found that my colleague in Cadw, who started in planning archaeology with the Welsh Archaeological Trusts at the same time as me in Dec 1991, is retiring at the same time. We will have been the longest serving planning archaeologists in Wales 🙂

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 8d

It’s always difficult to force yourself out into the cold but well worth it on a sunny day 🙂

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 8d

No I have never explored Stephen Baxter’s novels. Thanks for the tip I’ll take a look at this one 👍

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 8d

Really enjoyed Hannah Peel’s Radio 3 series on pioneering women working with electronic instruments. I’m a big fan of Eliane Radigue’s hypnotic work on the ARP 2500 synthesiser www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/serie...

BBC Sounds - The Essay - Available Episodes

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 8d

A year & 4 months since I lost Gill. Time flies. It always seems more difficult at the start of a new year now, even more so than over Christmas, as I have a whole year ahead where I have to try and fill the time without her. You actually want time to stop expanding the growing distance between us

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 8d

Free ice for the sangria 🙂❄️🍹

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 8d

Another freezing day -5 this morning 🥶 Still lots of Lapwings heading south.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 9d

Out on the Vyrnwy fields with looming snow clouds and a very icy towpath along the canal. Lots of Lapwing in the fields here in bad weather conditions.