What is it with this area? A little way south of the site of those 'dug outs' found in 1937 it seems there was another 'unusual' burial. Anyone have any information regarding the medival battle legend has it occurred here? An excerp from my field note refers....
'But wait; this being Pumlumon, there's more. Controversial, too. It short it seems that during 1938 - the year after THOSE excavations upon Disgwylfa Fawr - what has been described as a 'hurried burial' [R.S. Jones, Cambrian Archaeological Projects, 2004] was discovered here featuring 'human bones and 'plate armour'' within a stone cist... as reported within the Western Mail of 6th Sept. 1938 ('Historical Finds on Welsh Mountains'). 'Plate armour'? As with the 'dug-outs' located further north, guess it's all a question of interpretation. Was it an Iron Age inhumation, with a slab of the new 'stuff' as grave goods... or that of a medieval knight fallen in the battle local legend attributes to the site... a warrior who, by all accounts, must have been deemed quite a dude?'
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2nd December 2012ce
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He we go again... any thoughts? (GLADMAN, Dec 02, 2012, 11:13)
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