Excellent MA field trip to Pontypool, led by Steve.

For the full description, go to http://www.museumwales.ac.uk/en/welshstoneforum/newsletter/ and click on newsletter 7.

Meanwhile, here are some photos: at the Gorsedd stones

heading intrepidly past the cows

to the Folly tower (actually a rebuild – the original was such a key landmark that it had to be demolished during WWII)

Back in the centre of town – how many listed buildings can you count?

The famous pop factory is lithology heaven, a crazy quilt of scraps of stone left over from other buildings

and the old Quaker meeting house and burial yard clearly ought to be listed (but isn’t)

all in all a pretty good day.