The culmination of the Annual General Meeting was an illustrated
talk by the Director of the Cambria Archaeological Trust, Gwilym
Hughes. One of the opening slides of his excellent and revealing
presentation was of mist over Victoria Falls seen through a
rainbow; aptly known as the ‘Smoke that Thunders’. The
landlocked country of Zimbabwe is bordered to the north from
Zambia by the Zambezi River which throws itself over the mile
wide Victoria Falls and into Lake Kariba which is 186 miles
long. To the south the river Limpopo divides the country from
South Africa and its neighbours to the east and west are
Mozambique and Botswana respectively. Gwilym told us he had
lived and worked in Zimbabwe between 1984 and 1989 and been
involved in conservation work associated with the massive stone
structures forming the mysterious ruins of Great Zimbabwe, near
Masvingo in the south of the country. The huge stone walls of
the settlement, up to 11metres high and 6 metres thick, is
believed to date from a Shona civilisation