Mametz Wood - Sheers

• What is the context?

  • Battle of Mametz wood
  • 4,000 soldiers died and left to decompose
  • He was Welsh and visited the ground many times, felt moved by injustice
  • Sheers is their voice
• 'Chit' 'china' 'relic'
• Broken bird's egg of a skull
• nesting machine guns
• broken mosaic of bone linked arm in arm
• Skeletons passed mid- dance macabre
• Boots that outlasted them