'Frankie Vaughan locked in a haunted house' might be the best ever description of Bryan Ferry's vocal style

#FindsFriday Exquisite bronze neck collar unearthed nr Boverton, S Wales in 2005 Discovered with fragments of bone & two bracelets, indicating a disturbed Late Iron Age burial dating from the Roman campaigning period AD 50-75. On display NMW St Fagans museum.wales/news/238/Decla…

Louis-Victor Baillot, the last French survivor of the Battle of Waterloo, died today at in 1898 at age 104. I once met Henry Allingham, veteran of Jutland and Ypres, who died at 113 in 2009. He would have been 18 months old when Baillot died.

Rather a fine 'kiln eye' in the Graiglas coastal limekilns, Llanrhystud, #Ceredigion yesterday

Precisely! If you think the problem is that the UK is badly run you're not looking at the real problem: it's a spectacular success - if you're one of the oligarchs getting filthy rich dismantling everything. The best weapon against this empire is our independence. #IndyCymru

1) An extraordinary Roman bust thought to represent Mark Antony, carved in rare Egyptian basanite from the Wadi Hammamat quarries in the Eastern Desert – among the most highly prized stones used in ancient sculpture, known for replicating the metallic appearance of aged bronze..

#StandingStoneSunday One from the archives... Stonehenge midwinter solstice, December 1988 Required a very early start with my mother from Cardiff (me in the middle of A levels) hours before sunrise - but the only time I've ever made it for midwinter 📷 My own

Quote from Lloyd George in his earlier years in Cymru Fydd

Mind blown.

Something about hearing people from a different era adds another layer of connection beyond just reading or seeing pictures. These men, recorded in 1929 at the dawn of sound/visual recording technology, discuss their early memories during the Civil War over sixty years prior.

this election campaign just keeps on delivering 😄

Reaching number one in the UK charts this weekend in 1971 this is Middle Of The Road with Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep

Smashing Pumpkins at Cardiff Castle, luckily the rain held off. Great show

Watching the British boo their opponents national anthem and then stand fervently asking God to save just one person in a population of 67 million you realize how absurd the whole thing is. Maybe Europe realizes You’re Going Home!

Out in October. This book explores the exclusion of Welsh from C19th schools and the consequences of this for children, communities and the linguistic future of Wales. uwp.co.uk/book/welsh-not/

Suzanne Elliott, Summer Solstice - St Ives, Cornwall. #SolsticeDay

132 years ago this cartoon was drawn, and now it is getting even worse than ever.

#Fishing some 5,300 years ago - an amazing find: a #Neolithic fishhook made of wild boar tusk, wrapped with a fishing line. Found in the lake-dwelling settlement of Arbon Bleiche 3, Switzerland. On display at Archäologisches Museum Frauenfeld 📷 taken by me

Interesting telegraph.co.uk/world-news/202…