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Mark Walters
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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 · 17h
Reading this 877 page whopper of a novel. I don’t usually read novels this long but it had great reviews and the plot sounded interesting. It’s holding my attention over the first hundred pages despite the American phrasing and references to events and locations I’m not familiar with.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 2d
For once the cover blurb wasn’t overhyped with this superbly fast paced sci-fi novel. Finished it in a day and I could see it being made into a film or drama.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 2d
A walk between Handsacre and Alrewas and back on the Trent & Mersey Canal, Staffordshire. Loads of early canal buildings at Fradley Junction from the 1790s and industrial buildings at Kings Bromley Wharf including a later creamery serving local farms.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d
A walk through the Old Beaudesert Park woodland which has been used as a deer park since 1242 by the Bishops of Lichfield and then the Marquess of Anglesey.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 3d
The annual perambulation of the ramparts of Castlering hillfort, Cannock Chase and the remains of the stone medieval hunting lodge.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 7d
Out and about in Cannock Woods

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 7d
The site is completely hidden in trees on a horse training and stabling site. It is accessible by public footpath but the stable owners have tried to divert the footpath without permission so that you cannot enter the moat - so you do need to follow the footpath, not their signage 🙂

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 7d
Great to finally see the substantial earthwork moated site at Red Moor on Cannock Chase. It is thought to be the site of a royal hunting lodge built for Henry II in 1157-8 on the site of the 1141-55 Cistercian Radmore Abbey & later used as a private hunting lodge by the Bishops of Lichfield

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 8d
Up on Cannock Chase for the pre-Christmas meal walk. Lovely day. Happy Christmas all 🎄🙂

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 9d
Cheers John 🍷Happy Christmas 🙂

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 9d
Carols from Kings College on TV and a good glass of sherry - feels like Christmas now 🙂🎄🍷

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 9d
Good, but appallingly muddy, 7 mile circular walk from Hanbury to Tutbury and back today. Lots to see on the route- old medieval alabaster and later gypsum mines, WWII explosives storage, Tutbury Castle (still closed) & the superb 12th century decorated doorways of St Mary’s Chuch, Tutbury

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 12d
Ahh, shop closed until January - temptation thwarted briefly

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 12d
A solstice treat perhaps 😁

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 12d
Lovely landscape/nature/culture artwork in here, well worth a look 👇
archaeoborders.bsky.social Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 13d
Sometimes these contacts also create new connections including with artists. I'd never encountered the work of Elin Manon before, but she most definitely has a new fan www.elin-manon.com
Elin Manon Illustration
www.elin-manon.com

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 12d
Some lovely work in there, definitely tempted 🙂

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 13d
Watched Avatar:The Way of Water. It’s a bit twee and Disney and the environmental destruction by resource hungry humans message is too obvious throughout, but it’s pretty to look at…

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Mel Roxby-Mackey @archaeoborders.bsky.social · 13d
Sometimes these contacts also create new connections including with artists. I'd never encountered the work of Elin Manon before, but she most definitely has a new fan www.elin-manon.com
Elin Manon Illustration
www.elin-manon.com

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 13d
My new favourite mince pies 😋 Normally I don’t get on with mince pies as the mince/spice gives me indigestion but these are fine 🙂

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 13d
Lovely to spend 10 minutes with the Otter on the canal again today. It was arcing up to the surface hunting ahead of me and then as I followed the air bubbles on the surface it appeared just 2 metres from me and had a good look, seemingly unfazed by my presence or the dog, then continued south.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 14d
It really catches all the weather up there and must have been a miserable shift in the signal station in a 4th century winter.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 14d
Yes easily accessible via a short steep climb to the top. Just partial foundations visible but great views from up there. You can see how it easily communicated with the small naval fort at Caer Gybi in Holyhead.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 14d
Ice feathers on the windscreen this morning

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 14d
Enjoying Godless on Netflix set in 1884 Colorado. After a seemingly unconnected series of events at the start the story is coalescing nicely by the end of episode 1. Quite an interesting variation of the modern western genre with a great storyline & characters.

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 15d
Curled up with her squirrel after the 10km circular walk this morning 🙂

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 15d
Yes she has left now and it was up for sale. The chap I saw outside the accommodation block didn’t look like he could afford food let alone buy a fog station.