It took me about a year but I finished it! And I've had this book for years. I bought it from the author himself; he is a local celebrity, as he had been in the most famous punk band in Wales ever, but is also an archaeologist. And I like archaeology. And I've been on two guided tours with him. Through the media of Welsh. And at the end of one of them, he sold this book. I obviously bought one! “Cam i’r gorffennol”, or a step into the past.
I don't think that book was actually meant for being read cover to cover. It is basically a list of interesting archaeological locations, and a description of what you can find there, and what is known about them. But I read it cover to cover anyway. Initially I took it with me to the Netherlands; then I got sidetracked by other books, but I recently finished it.
Quite a number of these places I have already visited. Bryn Celli Ddu, Tre’r Ceiri, Din Lligwy, Tomen y Mur… but it's nice to read a bit more about them anyway. And there are several I haven't visited yet, and want to now, like Dinas Emrys and Bryn Cader Faner. I'll try to visit some of these in the new year! That's a nice thing about an archaeology book: it's double enjoyment. Once when you read it, and once when it takes you places you otherwise wouldn't have visited. And I'm sure Neil will be up for things like that too!
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