Extensive photos of the excavation of the Braich y Dinas hillfort before it was completely destroyed by quarrying in the 20th century.
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Utterly appalling.... this would've been some hill fort. Can't help wondering whether those that lavish so much media exposure upon the Wessex honeypots care (or, indeed, have the remotest idea) what has been lost and - more to the point - what is being lost across the UK where the journalists can't be arsed to venture.
Completely agree. I was shocked to find out this had been there at all. I'm hoping you've got some photos of where it was, but what a location. A north coast Tre'r Ceiri.
!!!!! And then there's the Thames valley henges destroyed by gravel extraction in c20..hardly back of beyond
Well, it's not that Stonehenge isn't special.... obviously it was a showpiece... but the implication - to gauge by the endless books, theories by preening archaeologists... and, last but not least, column inches by 'concerned' journalists with political axes to grind - that it and its surroundings throw more light on past society, are worth more than, say, the numerous modest complexes surrounding Mynydd Du is to my mind not only fraudulent but utterly counter productive to protecting the almost countless upland cairns and monuments upon farmland for future generations.
Destroy the Thornborough Henges and no-one gives a monkeys. Why is that? Because they are 'up north'?