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Menter Môntylwyth

video · 2024 · Harlech / Ardudwy, Eryri

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Tylwyth — Welsh for family, clan, kin — is the community archaeology project working the upland enclosures above Harlech in Ardudwy, Eryri (Snowdonia). Volunteer diggers under archaeological supervision, square-and-line laid out across an intact drystone-walled platform, a bell tent for finds processing, weather coming in off the sea and onto the hill in horizontal rain.

Menter Môn commissioned this case-study film as part of their wider series on community projects across north-west Wales. We spent the day at the dig — interview with the project lead in waterproofs ("CARNEDDAU" hood up against the rain), close-ups of the survey string-line being pegged into the grass, the volunteer with red gloves and yellow bucket clearing turf, hands holding a lifted plug of moss and root, and a mason's mallet at rest on a wet slate slab between strikes.

The film was delivered bilingually with full Welsh and English subtitles, ready for Menter Môn's social channels and partner network.

more from the project
Tylwyth project lead interviewed in horizontal rain in a CARNEDDAU waterproof hood — community archaeology film for Menter Môn, Harlech uplands.
Hands in a camo-pattern jacket pegging a survey string-line into upland grass — archaeological grid being laid out at the Tylwyth community dig.
Volunteer in red gloves clearing turf with a yellow bucket at the Tylwyth community archaeology dig — shallow-focus action detail in the rain.
Hands lifting a plug of moss and root with grass and stone wall behind — Tylwyth community archaeology dig in Ardudwy, Eryri.
A mason's mallet at rest on a rain-wet slate slab in upland grass — quiet still-life detail from the Tylwyth community archaeology film.