Sean Jones

A three windowed stone chapel isolated by the road with boarded up windows. Blue sky beyond

Derelict chapel in Cwm Cywarch, Meirionnydd, today

#Eryri/#Snowdonia

Toby, Lou & Julian from the Royal Commission standing next to the Harold Stone, Skomer

The first day of survey for #RCAHMW on Skomer Island, Pembrokeshire, working closely with the Wildlife Trust for South & West Wales and Cadw.

Just perfect weather for archaeological recording 👌☀️

@rcahmwales.bsky.social

People on a guided walk of Skomer Island.

Welcome! We’re excited to share our work in recording and understanding Wales’s rich history, heritage, and archaeology. Follow us for expert insights, research updates, and discoveries as we explore and record Wales’s historic environment. Thanks for joining us—we look forward to engaging with you!

Pobl ar daith dywys ar Ynys Sgomer

Croeso! Rydym yn falch o rannu ein gwaith yn cofnodi a deall hanes, treftadaeth ac archeoleg Cymru. Dilynwch ein cipolwg awdurdodol, diweddariadau ymchwil a darganfyddiadau wrth inni gofnodi amgylchedd hanesyddol Cymru.
Diolch am ymuno gyda ni – edrychwn ymlaen at gadw mewn cysylltiad gyda chi!

A ruined building at the back of a rocky beach in evening light

The coastal ruins of Felin Gafnan mill, Porth y Pistyll, north Anglesey/Ynys Môn at sunset tonight - a really special place

Good fun today paying my respects to the 10 bells of St Mary’s Priory Church, Abergavenny. All in the Up position apart from the small calling bell, they have been called “the finest ring of ten bells in Christendom”. They were recast and increased in number to 10 in 1947.

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Arswyd Cosmig: Welsh novelist translates classic Horror Stories Adam Pearce Editor, Llyfrau Melin Bapur An acclaimed Welsh novelist and short-story writer, Peredur Glyn, whose story collection Pumed Gainc y Mabinogi was shortlisted for Welsh Book of the Year in 20...

An acclaimed Welsh novelist and short-story writer, whose story collection was shortlisted for Welsh Book of the Year in 2023, has followed that up by translating some of the short stories of cult horror writer H. P. Lovecraft into Welsh ✍️ Adam Pearce wp.me/p8Mk4U-VxC

YouTube video by Built Heritage Education Principles of Quality Concrete - Documentary - 1980

This short documentary about concrete and it’s failures is excellent!

Principles of Quality Concrete - Documentary - 1980
youtu.be/nnfqmbEWXac

Historic Churches 2024 The conservation and repair of ecclesiastical buildings

Historic Churches magazine celebrates heritage of ecclesiastical art and architecture, promotes conservation and publicises developments in the fight to keep the UK’s historic places of worship open and cared for.

The digital copy is available FREE:

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On Sunday 22nd December, there will be carols at St Cadoc’s, Llangattock-Vibon-Avel. This Monmouthshire church, which possesses a great collection of Victorian stained glass, will reverberate with the beautiful harmonies of the Llangattock Community Choir.

©Sean Jones @welshbuildings.bsky.social

Storyville Books Bookshop UK Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.

⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.

If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.

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Publication day has arrived!

‘All Through the Night: How Dark Skies Can Save Our World’ is now out in the world in a beautiful paperback 📚

I am super proud of this book, poured my soul into it and the message is SO important so PLEASE read it if you care at all for life on this planet 🌏

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This is the new account for the University of Wales Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. CAWCS is a dedicated research centre conducting team-based projects on the languages, literatures, culture and history of Wales and the other Celtic countries. Follow us to learn more.

An autumn view of a medieval archway and gate.

#AdoorableThursday 🚪

📍Ewenny Priory

#Wales #History

What can you do on a day like today but draw?

The house next to the graveyard, Trawsfynydd

Still doing its job after several hundred years: the medieval door at St. Mary's, Derwen in Wales with its lovely fleur-de-lys hinges.

Thanks David!

Thinking about these stone cattle grids 🐄

📍Lesnewth

#Cornwall #History

So for all the folks interested, or based, in #Wales here is an easy (non-comprehensive!!!) list of 150 of the best follows.

#Wales #Cymru #Cymreig #Cymraeg #Welsh
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Obliquely lit standing stone inside a dark prehistoric tomb shows up pecked or engraved zig-zag lines and chevron designs on its face. Metal bars in background are the gate which allows visitors into this north Wales tomb

For #StandingStoneSunday

Hand-pecked magical Neolithic art - thought to represent a tomb guardian - engraved on an entrance stone inside Barclodiad y Gawres passage grave, Ynys #Môn/#Angelsey, Cymru/Wales, some 5,500-6,000 yrs ago; echoing the Boyne Valley rock art of #Ireland

📷 My own Jan 2023

House of Dogs: the last squires of Trecwn We begin a new series about Trecwn in Pembrokeshire which traces colourful family histories and tells the story of a quiet valley’s transformation into a naval weapons depot. Howell Harris This is…

It was a quiet Pembrokeshire valley with an ancient estate which became a huge naval weapons depot. Trecwn’s history is full of fascinating, colourful characters Howell Harris

You too! I hate changing platforms but I'd hardly posted on Twitter in the last 6 months so it seemed the right time.

St Cewydd's, Disserth. A superb medieval church with box pews surviving from as early as 1666.