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Tax bill paid with 2,000-year-old Iron Age fire guard

"A 2,000-year-old Iron Age fire guard has been accepted into Wales' national museum in lieu of inheritance tax.

The Capel Garmon Firedog, once one of a pair on the hearth of a chieftain's roundhouse, is regarded as one of the finest surviving prehistoric iron artefacts in Europe."

More here..... continues...

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Posted by 1speed
21st December 2011ce

North Wales hillfort test of Iron Age communication

An experiment has shed light on how Iron Age people communicated from their hilltop homes 2,500 years ago.

About 200 volunteers stood on the summit of 10 hillforts in north Wales, the Wirral and Cheshire, and signalled to each other with torches.

Their aim was to learn if communities used the summits to warn each other... continues...

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Posted by scubi63
20th March 2011ce

Hot Weather Shows Wales' History

From an item published on the BBC News web site on 8th August 2006:

Hot weather has produced parched landscapes which have allowed experts to detect the outlines of some of Wales' earliest buildings...

See the aerial photos, including an image of the newly discovered circular enclosure and barrow near Aberystwyth.

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Posted by Kammer
10th August 2006ce

Edited 2nd June 2007ce

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View Finder Panoramas

Not strictly megalithic, but anyone who has stood on one of Wales' high places and wondered "what's that big pointy hill over there?" should find it of interest.

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Posted by thesweetcheat
11th December 2011ce

Database for Rock Art in Wales

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Posted by moss
6th September 2010ce

Archwilio

New website of the Welsh Historic Environment Records, with a lovely searchable map. Mmm.

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Posted by Rhiannon
22nd July 2010ce

Meini Meirionnydd

A Welsh web site that has grown out of the publication of the very popular book 'Meini Meirionnydd'. The site is currently under development but will eventually have information in Welsh about the Pre-history monuments of Wales.

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Posted by caealun
6th September 2008ce

Edited 11th November 2008ce

CARN: Core Archaeological Record iNdex

CARN is the original public entry-point to the Extended National Database for Wales, a national information resource for archaeology and architecture.

See also Coflein, which includes a useful search by map.

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Posted by RiotGibbon
20th August 2001ce

Edited 8th February 2008ce