Bragget - an ancient British liquor also known as Bragod in #Wales A sweet, spiced drink fermented from ale & honey
King Hywel Dda, d.950AD, stated that 2 vats were a suitable tribute
📷: Staffordshire Slipware Bragget pot (1697) sold Sotheby's for $47,500 in 2019
#wyrdwednesday

This green garden is said to overlay the former Llys (court) of Llywelyn ap Gruffud (Llywelyn the Last). It is unknown if one wall of the building was incorporated into the wall but at ground level it is the only section of wall to have window seats. #MedievalMonday

In the 19th and early 20th centuries, the harp was the most important instrument in Llannerch-y-medd, Anglesey. 🎼

The Britannia Inn on the village square was home to some of the best harpists in Wales, and their home was known as 'The Home of the Harp'. They were famous for

Looking down into beautiful Cwm Idwal today. Charles Darwin first came here in 1831 and seeing fossilised sea creatures in the rocks realised that this extraordinary landscape had been shaped by shifting glaciers. #Eryri #Snowdonia

#FolkloreSunday
There were other magical swords as well as Excalibur in Celtic mythology: Dyrnwyn blazed with fire when drawn by a worthy person, 'A wound from Cai's sword no physician might heal' and Manannán Mac Lir's sword was invincible ...

Today’s stone is six feet tall, worn smooth and black by sheltering sheep. (see next) Lovely views east towards Birds rock (Craig yr Aderyn) and off towards Cader Idris. (mirroring the landscape?) #StandingStoneSunday More 1/

Standing Stones aren’t always hiding in the wilderness, sometimes they’re part of our everyday street furniture like Maen Llwyd stone which is now sited on a traffic island!
#StandingStoneSunday
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This evening’s view from the Ffordd Ddu (the black road) #Meirionnydd overlooking the Mawddach Estuary. The light was fantastically crisp and blue with sparkly motes - or perhaps that was just my eyes

Decorated slate, Sling

These decorated slate pieces are something of a tradition in the Dyffryn Ogwen area, although we do have records of examples from other areas in the Slate Landscape.

📸Archaeoleg Gwynedd Archaeology

#FindsFriday
#archaeology
#WorldHeritageSite

Word of the Day: telynor 'a harpist': geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?t…. Two hundred years to the day, the famous harpist Edward Jones, who was known as the King's Bard, died. As well as performing, he collected and published much traditional music and old verses.

#FindsFriday So - did the Romans invade Ynys Môn/Anglesey because of Druids 🧙 or....

..the immense copper wealth of Parys Mountain? 🤔 Probably both..

Hefty Roman copper ingot from coastal Aberffraw, on display in the excellent Oriel Ynys Môn.

📷 My own, last week

My bampy used to pull off a hawthorn leaf, eat it, and say, 'bread and cheese '. He was from Pontypridd.

Word of the Day: orgraff 'orthography': geiriadur.ac.uk/gpc/gpc.html?o…. 95 years ago today Sir John Morris-Jones died. He chaired the committee that produced the standard work on Welsh spelling in 1928, which set the standard for Welsh spelling and is central to the Dictionary's work.

The manuscripts of Llewelyn Alaw, (1828 - 1879), a miner and harpist from Aberdâr. archifau.llyfrgell.cymru/index.php/musi…

He won the prize at the Eisteddfod in Llangollen, 1858, for the 'Best Collection of Unpublished Tunes' and received several eisteddfod prizes for playing the harp.

#RevealTuesday 🧐🔍

Capel Garmon Burial Chamber Tombs of this type belong to an archaeological grouping called ‘Cotswold-Severn’ after the area in which they are generally found, so Capel Garmon’s unusual position so far north remains a mystery.

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Bedd Taliesin (Taliesin’s Grave) with views over the Dyfi Estuary for #TombTuesday

1/2 Thank heavens it's #HillfortsWednesday ! 🍻🎉

At the weekend I made a long overdue trip to see the rare survivor Caer Leb on Ynys Môn/Anglesey - a lowland Iron Age/Romano-British defended farm in a very wet position

Excavations in 1866 produced evidence for RB buildings ⤵️

Who killed the last wolf in Wales?
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#TombTuesday Evening sunlight last week on the spectacular #Neolithic tomb of Maen Ceti or Arthur's Stone on Cefn Bryn, Gower.

Twin chambers were formed by hollowing out the ground beneath a massive glacial erratic, which subsequently split sometime in the past.

📷 My own

#MythologyMonday
Geraint only escapes from the land surrounded by the Hedge of Mist because he listens [against his macho conscience] to the captive woman, who tells him to blow an enchanted horn hanging on an apple tree - which disperses the mist ...