In a pot in the garden is a small lemon tree. It's about 70cm tall, covered in fierce thorns and, at this time of year, is looking a little dishevelled after a winter spent outside in a climate it's not suited to. About five years old, it is the sole survivor of school holiday project … Continue reading A Quiet Life #4: the lemon tree
Archaeology
A Quiet Life #3: Brean Down, Somerset, June 2019
I've only been to Brean Down once, in early June last year. An outlier of the Mendip Hills to the east, it stretches into the brown-blue waters of the Bristol Channel rising to about 100m above the beach and the water. I'd wanted to visit and walk its length for some time, its location combined … Continue reading A Quiet Life #3: Brean Down, Somerset, June 2019
The ‘Purton Hulks’: a ship graveyard on the Severn Estuary, Gloucestershire
It's been quite a while since I last posted anything here, not for lack of stories or things to say, but rather one of the mental space to do so. In fact, I'm writing a lot at the moment, finishing up a big project at work – a Viking-Age hoard of coins and silver objects … Continue reading The ‘Purton Hulks’: a ship graveyard on the Severn Estuary, Gloucestershire
Wordless Wednesday #58: medieval floor tile
Wordless Wednesday #56: old barge on the banks of the Severn Estuary, Gloucestershire
Wordless Wednesday #40: remains of Greyfriars Priory, Gloucester
Wordless Wednesday #35: Brean Down fort, Somerset
Wordless Wednesday #28: medieval graffiti, Chapel of St Mary Magdalen, Gloucester
Poets’ Walk, Clevedon, North Somerset
At the southern end of the North Somerset town of Clevedon, a small promontory juts out into the Severn Estuary, bounded by steep cliffs on each water-facing side. Around the edge of this is Poets' Walk, a short, popular route named after two poets who visited Clevedon, Alfred Tennyson and Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Another poet, … Continue reading Poets’ Walk, Clevedon, North Somerset
Great Witcombe Roman villa, Gloucestershire
Nestled at the foot of the Cotswold hills in Gloucestershire, just as they begin to rise up and woods cover the landscape, lies the Roman villa at Great Witcombe, built in the second century AD with additions continuing on-and-off until the fourth. I'd walked up from the village, following the footpath along the field edges, … Continue reading Great Witcombe Roman villa, Gloucestershire
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