View of the Shropshire-Welsh borderland, a landscape shaped by farming communities since at least the Bronze Age some four thousand years ago

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“I have seen the sun break through

to illuminate a small field

for awhile, and gone my way

and forgotten it. But that was a pearl

of great price, the one field that had

the treasure in it…”

Excerpt from the  The Bright Field  by R S Thomas

 

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