Gwynedd

Video published on the BBC News web site on 23rd January 2014:

Winter storms which battered the coast of Wales have exposed previously hidden traces of the area’s Stone Age landscape.

A four mile stretch of coastline near Tywyn on the west coast of Wales was so altered by the sea that it was pushed back 50 feet (15 metres).

The new coastline has revealed the existence of ancients forests, with the remains of trees dating back 6000 years.

bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-25865118

National Trust has raised £1m to buy a farm encompassing a lake considered one of the most beautiful and emblematic in Wales.

There were concerns that Llyn Dinas in Snowdonia and its shoreline could be turned into a water sports centre if it were not saved for the nation.

Llyn Dinas and the farm, Llyndy Isaf, are considered special partly because they are home to a wealth of wildlife but also because the area is the setting for the mythical battle between a red and white dragon. Legend says the red dragon won, and thus it became the country’s beloved national symbol.

guardian.co.uk/uk/2011/nov/16/llyn-dinas-saved-by-national-trust

A friend of mine was telling me about this the other day. Apparently they have now moved the proposed building site for the school and archaeological digs are on-going Caernarfon

caernarfonherald.co.uk/caernarfon-county-news/local-caernarfon-news/2010/01/14/big-archaeological-find-could-delay-caernarfon-school-move-88817-25595726/

Experts believe important prehistoric remains could lie under a proposed international sheepdog centre near Bala, in North Wales. Gwynedd Archaeological Planning Service stepped in after realising there is a prehistoric and Roman site close by.

“Our concern is that there might be similar remains at this site at Ysgubor Isaf,” said archaeologist Emily La Trobe-Bateman. “There is a very important prehistoric and Roman site in a nearby field, as well as similar sites further away, which did come to light in 1997,” she explained.

The scientists plan to use trace changes in the soil which would indicate remains, although there are no plans for a dig. “There may be nothing there, but bearing in mind the closeness to a known prehistoric site then we feel that a survey is necessary,” she added “We are in effect playing safe and the development will depend on what is found below ground.”

Source: icNorthWales (11 December 2003)