Ship happens…

…to get wrecked on a Pembrokeshire beach on 18th April 1837. So the archaeologists from Aberystwyth were making the most of yesterday’s very low spring tide to conduct another round of survey work on the remains of the Bristol paddlesteamer Albion, which are to be found on – Albion Sands!

View from part way down the Horse Neck path;
Skokholm Island, where another early Bristol paddler Queen was lost,
in the background.
Albion’s cranked paddleshaft clearly visible,
considerably taller than the surveying team members!
Caption: man in yellow tabard –
“Unbelievable that the Marloes residents still think we’re archaeologists,
despite all this prospecting gear!
 Let’s drill the first oil well HERE…”