... period. There are several buildings consisting of a dry stone wall around an open courtyard with a dwelling house built into the wall ... of four interlocking houses with courtyards and a number of stone built roundhouses were built in the 1st century BC. In Craig ...
Anonymous (not verified) - May 11 2013 - 5:08pm
... Fawr (the large fort) and Y Gaer Fach (the small fort). The stone ramparts on both are visible today. The remains of previous Bronze Age activity remain including the large stone cairn on Carn Goch thought to be about 4000 years old. The site is ...
Anonymous (not verified) - Sep 2 2021 - 10:15am
... to the massive reaction across Wales to the vandalism of the stone wall with the words "Cofiwch Dryweryn" ("Remember Trweryn") painted on it. The stone has become a memorial to the decision to permanently flood the Welsh ...
Alastair Kneale - Apr 29 2019 - 2:20pm
... ( Le Grand Menhir Brisé) the largest known single block of stone to have been transported and erected by Neolithic people. Thought to have ... erected in around 4700 BC, when it was intact the granite stone was thought to have stood at over 20.60 metres (67.6 ft) and weigh 330 ...
Anonymous (not verified) - Apr 14 2021 - 5:43pm
... Monk. They include a wall, possible remains of sub-circular stone structures which could be houses, a quern stone and butchered animal bone. The rare finds have survived in an ...
Douglas MacQueen - Jan 19 2019 - 2:28pm
... position over the Irish Sea and the remains of a large stone rampart on the east and north sides. There is also the remains of the base of a subsequent Roman stone watchtower. The site is west of Holyhead (Caergybi) on Holy Island ...
Anonymous (not verified) - Jun 22 2022 - 10:32pm
... of built structures and field systems, the cleits (unique stone storage buildings) and the traditional Highland stone houses. Items pointing to Neolithic settlement have been found ...
Douglas MacQueen - Feb 26 2020 - 5:40pm
... with the remains of the motte and later thirteenth century stone keep visible in the Bishops palace. After swopping hands between the ... on several occasions the castle was eventually rebuilt in stone by the English in the early-mid thirteenth century. After falling into ...
Anonymous (not verified) - Jul 5 2022 - 4:47pm
... a large chamber. This chamber is topped with a large square stone of about 13ft. There are carvings and three holes cut into the rock of ... leading to the inner chamber, there are two prominent stone sills on the floor. There are designs carved on the threshold of the ...
Anonymous (not verified) - Apr 15 2021 - 9:16pm
... and enamel locket pendant is made up of a faceted jacinth stone, which was believed to protect its wearer from both lightning and the ... on a chain, it would possibly have had a pearl or precious stone dangling beneath it. NMS are going to look into possible links between ...
Douglas MacQueen - Apr 1 2017 - 1:08pm