Landscape: abandoned

Abandoned 2/2
Stripped fibre-glass boat left high and dry, Newport estuary, Pembrokeshire

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Landscape: wreck

Abandoned 1/2
Wooden wreck of a boat among the reeds of the Newport estuary, Pembrokeshire

Building: gateway

Side view of surviving medieval gateway to Carmarthen Castle
The two-storey building to the right houses the early modern police lock-up and current information centre

Building: classical

Classically inspired building, Carmarthen
The elongated portico gives a good impression of a temple in a town which has been continuously inhabited for two millennia

Building: arena

Steps down to the Roman arena, Carmarthen
The ‘oldest town in Wales’ also has the remains of a little-known arena

Walk: gates

A walk to Crughywel hillfort:
a contrasting pair of gates and a defaced sign: LOGS MUST BE ON A LAD

Walk: pause

A walk to Crughywel hillfort: a pause to admire a view of Sugarloaf …

Walk: vistas

A walk to Crughywel hillfort: views of Sugarloaf Mountain above Abergavenny from the Iron Age ramparts of Crughywel hillfort (Howell’s hill) …

Walk: level

A walk to Crughywel hillfort: approaching on the level, Sugarloaf on the horizon …

Walk: sheepfold

A walk to Crughywel hillfort:
counter-intuitively walking away from the hillfort through a sheepfold …