Another beauty this #HillfortsWednesday: Crug Hywel, near Crickhowell
It's tear-drop shaped, enclosing an area of about 100 metres northwest-southeast and 50 metres northeast-southwest
Inside its walls there's evidence of 2 hut platforms & a hut circle
📸RCAHMW, 2016
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It's been a while since we participated in #HillfortsWednesday, so we thought we’d share this oblique aerial photo of Moel-y-Gaer today
Excavation in 1972-3 revealed a complex early #IronAge sequence of construction & occupation
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📸@drtobydriver.bsky.social, July 2014
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(2/2) The crew spent the night in the rigging, but were thankfully helped ashore the following morning. Some of the remains of the ROVER are still visible at Marros Sands today
coflein.gov.uk/en/site/417716
📸RCAHMW, 2 February 2026
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(1/2) On 8 December 1886, the ROVER was anchored at Tenby, but ‘a gale of great fury from the west-south-west’ parted its anchor cables, and the schooner was driven in the direction of Pendine.
📸RCAHMW, 2 February 2026
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Dreaming of warmer, sunnier days? Maybe this summer you could join the crowds at the popular Oxwich Bay, on the Gower Peninsula. Or, if you’re after a quieter experience, you could go wildlife spotting in the rest of Oxwich National Nature Reserve
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📸RCAHMW, July 2014
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Once the site of an opencast mine, Ffos Las produces energy a bit differently now
It has about 20,000 solar panels on approximately 30 acres, and started generating energy in 2013
If only they could harness the energy of the horses racing next door too!
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📸RCAHMW,2014
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Do you have fond memories of family holidays splashing around at the ‘Blue Lagoon’ waterpark?
The iconic building is part of Bluestone holiday village, which was build in 2006-07
Since then it has attracted more than a million visitors
📸T. Driver, RCAHMW, 22 July 2014
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Although this is a suitably majestic site for an elephant’s final resting place, it's more likely that the rectangular stone structure (which appears on a c.1875 Ordnance Survey map) served as some kind of navigation aid
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📸J. Whitewright, RCAHMW, 3 December 2025
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Cae Llys is the site of a thirteenth century llys, a court of the princes of Gwynedd. Excavations undertaken in 1993 uncovered an 11m by 17m hall, and pottery and coins mostly dated from between about 1247 and 1314
📸Toby Driver, RCAHMW, 11 February 2016
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Consequently, the gun emplacement has suffered from a loss of structural integrity, causing serious damage
📸J. Whitewright, RCAHMW, 2025
coflein.gov.uk/en/site/801634
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