Kate

Metal detectorists find 2,000-year-old treasure in field The find - the first of its kind in west Wales - is incredibly rare and has been described as one of 'historical significance'

Huge news for Ceredigion & west Wales.

Imperial #Roman lead mines on Cardigan Bay were under the control of Domitian by AD 87 as confirmed by the discovery of these lead pigs

Only the 5th & 6th ingots ever found in Wales 😮

www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-n...

Two Roman lead pigs on a forklift in a farmyard

This was the scene when I arrived to collect the lead pigs from the landowner in Oct 24, for safe transfer to the National Museum 😮

It's not often Roman finds are so heavy they're carried on a forklift

The pigs are extraordinary..each weighed around 85kg & had to be lifted by two people 💪

📷 TD

There was a Roman lead smelting site found on Llangynfelin Island, I worked on the associated environmental remains. Archaelogia Cambrensis 161 (2012), 285-356. A very interesting site.

Le Curiasse Bouvet Ships Suite 👉 https://cartorum.fr/carte-postale/520557/le-curiasse-bouvet-ships

Le Curiasse Bouvet Ships
Suite 👉 https://cartorum.fr/carte-postale/520557/le-curiasse-bouvet-ships

An embroidered picture of a lake, sheep, trees and mountains, all worked with tapestry wool. Lots of French knots!

Dydd Gwyl Dewi Hapus,
Happy St David’s day. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
A lot of my embroidery art is inspired by living in the Teifi Valley with the Cambrian mountains as a backdrop. #embroidery #art

A heart shaped embroidery of hills, trees, sheep a pond and a stone wall.

Happy Valentines greetings from Wales!

Embroidery no5, it’s another medieval tile design!

An embroidered interpretation of a medieval floor tile depicting a hare/rabbit in bronze metallic thread

The fourth embroidery of 2025 and the first for February, another medieval tile. Embroidery is helping me stay calm during a very stressful time.

The third embroidery of 2025 was finished last night, a design from a medieval tile.

The second embroidery of 2025 completed, inspired by Pictish imagery and illuminated manuscripts #embroidery#handembroidery

Happy Birthday 🎉

Brandy a Lhasa Apso dog lies on a blanket looking very relaxed

Brandy the Lhasa says hello

Sign and share this petition to support Wales's oldest university!

Here I am hard at work c. Mid 1990s. Microscope by Cadw, jumper from B J Jones, Lampeter. Photo from an old prospectus for Archaeology at what was Saint David’s University College, Lampeter.

#lampeter
Here is the petition to Senedd (raised in addition to the earlier Change.org one) to raise concern at the #UWTSD proposal to remove undergraduate teaching from Lampeter in 2025. A Welsh version is available. Note the lower thresholds for review.

petitions.senedd.wales/petitions/24...

A fragment of Roman Mosaic, found during excavations at The Brooks site, Winchester.

My one and only contribution to #MosaicMonday, from The Brooks excavation at Winchester 1988. My photo on site. I then swapped site work for a cosy archaeobotany lab!

One of my favourite embroideries

small hairy dog sat in front of a box marked archaeobotanical tweezers

And introducing Brandy, guardian of the archaeobotanical tweezers (a very important job).

Embroidered portrait of a cairn terrier

Embroidered portrait of a Shih Tzu dog

All three embroidered dog portraits

Dogs seem very popular on here, so maybe my doggy portrait embroideries will help increase my social media engagement

Embroidered hand axe!

My embroidery of the Nebra Disk

Hand embroidered red squirrel on a branch with a painted back ground

My mixed media embroidery of a red squirrel as a first post on this site.