Llyn Fawr

Located near Hirwaun in Cynon Valley Llyn Fawr is the site where workmen clearing the lake bed found a number of Bronze and Iron Age items. These included bronze cauldrons, axes, sickles and horse harnesses as well as other items including an iron sword with a bone handle representing the earliest evidence of iron work found in the British Isles dating to about 600BC. It is thought that the Celts threw these items in to the lake 2500 years ago as offering to the goddess of water. Some of these items can be seen at the National Museum in Cardiff. The site is off the A4061 along a forestry track. It is south of Hirwaun and west of Hirwaun Common and the A4061.