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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 #56: old barge on the banks of the Severn Estuary, Gloucestershire
Wordless Wednesday #55: tree bark in winter sunshine
Wordless Wednesday #50: Dawn
Wordless Wednesday #49: Burrows Field, Cheltenham
Wordless Wednesday #29: cedar cones new and old
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
Wordless Wednesday #11: wishful thinking…
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
