Mark Walters

@mark-walters.bsky.social

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

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Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 10h

Well that was thrilling watching the mixed skeleton race on the Winter Olympics - well done Britain another two golds 🥇🙂👏

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 15h

Wow, lovely set of classic tree species there 👍

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 19h

Looks a real ankle breaker. Careful footwork needed there I suspect.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 20h

Yes I struggled with it too. It just seemed to really plod along at the start. Now on ep4 and the plot is thickening up nicely. Know the area it was filmed in very well so it’s good fun spotting locations.

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 20h

Looks like it’s back to the grey stuff then

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

Enjoyed this series, lots of gentle humour in there and observations of people. Fun stop-motion critters too. Good to see there will be a second series.

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

New fiction reading for the month ahead. A thriller set in the 18th century Canadian sub-arctic wilderness and a gothic horror set on the west coast of Ireland. I usually get through 3 novels a month in winter but less through summer when there is more to do outside.

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

Making the most of the sunshine ☀️ 🙂

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

It sounds like the seaside round here with all of the gulls down feeding on the saturated fields

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

Evidence of Hannibal passing through and potentially besieging an Iberian oppida ? An elephant bone and catapult ammunition suggest so… www.livescience.com/archaeology/...

'Landmark' elephant bone finding in Spain may be from time of Hannibal's war against Rome

An elephant bone discovered in Spain may date to the time of Hannibal's battles against the Romans.

www.livescience.com

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

Interesting news about a new 8th c. CE manuscript known as the Maronite Chronicle of 713 found in St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, Egypt. It provides historical information about the early rise of Islam, early Arab conquests and the Byzantine-Sassanian War www.oeaw.ac.at/en/news/1300...

1,300-Year-Old World Chronicle Discovered in the Sinai

A newly discovered Christian world chronicle from the early eighth century offers fresh insights into the political and religious upheavals from Late Antiquity to the rise of Islam. Researchers at the...

www.oeaw.ac.at

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Moonbuilding @moonbuilding.bsky.social · 2d

Moonbuilding Weekly Issue 94 is out now, starring @confluxcoldwell.bsky.social @haikusalut.bsky.social @vokagentle.bsky.social and much more!

moonbuilding.substack.com/p/issue-95-1...

Issue 95 / 13 February 2026

The essential DIY electronic music lowdown: Track Of The Week: Haiku Salut & Meg Morley + Album Of The Week: Conflux Coldwell + Voka Gentle + Phexioenesystems + The Odes + Harry Christelis + more...

moonbuilding.substack.com

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

Well that was a weird one

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New Scientist @newscientist.com · 3d

About 4600 years ago, the population of Britain was replaced by a people who brought Bell Beaker pottery with them. Now, ancient DNA has uncovered the murky story of where these people came from

The surprising origins of Britain's Bronze Age immigrants revealed

About 4600 years ago, the population of Britain was replaced by a people who brought Bell Beaker pottery with them. Now, ancient DNA has uncovered the murky story of where these people came from

www.newscientist.com

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

🙂 Just really got to me, good when a film can do that though.

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

Blimey, just watched the Hamnet film and it’s a real tear jerker isn’t it 🥲 Need to sort myself out with a coffee, too much grief.

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

Excellent album, as is anything produced by Portland Vows 👇

Third Kind Records @thirdkindrecords.bsky.social · 5d

NP: Portland Vows - Plastic Alice 💿

Gently psychedelic, modular synth ambient CD from Third Kind stalwart Portland Vows…

portland-vows.bandcamp.com/album/plasti...

CD cover with mid-century pattern made up of eyes

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Third Kind Records @thirdkindrecords.bsky.social · 5d

NP: Portland Vows - Plastic Alice 💿

Gently psychedelic, modular synth ambient CD from Third Kind stalwart Portland Vows…

portland-vows.bandcamp.com/album/plasti...

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Norman Records @normanrecords.com · 5d

JUST IN! 'Spacehop Chronicles 2' by Bluetech

Laika-themed ambient-electronic concept work which plays like a single track, split into ten seamlessly flowing tunes.

www.normanrecords.com/records/2114...

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

Ahh, fun way of visualising the Bluesky family. We seem to be in the same area 👍

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

Reed Bunting watching me on the canal before sundown

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

Nice out the back

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

Oh great 👍

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

Hughes not Jones 🙂

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

Ahh, nice, I picked up the Aled Rhys Jones project too 👍

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

Probably our most played CD over the last 16 years. Bluetech’s 2010 Love Songs to the Source album. A hugely collaborative album blending languorous dub/reggae rhythms, electronics, superb guest vocals, trumpet, saxophone and more. One of the greatest albums to chill out with & great on the road too

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

Good to have a bit more of the Game of Thrones world on the screen. I read the hedge knight stories back in 2014.

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

Enjoying a read of the Winchelsea novel by Alex Preston. A really pacy swashbuckler set on the south coast around Winchelsea and Rye in the 1740’s.

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

On what would have been Gills birthday happy memories of 30 years exploring together. Missing you always 💔

Mark Walters @mark-walters.bsky.social · 10d

It’s so wet in the fields around us that it’s attracting Little Egrets down to feed on the worms surfacing due to the saturated soil. Nice to be able to watch them from the house 🙂

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