Tag: Bangor University

• Pillar of Eliseg

  Pillar of Eliseg: Archaeologists dig beneath 9th Century monument Archaeologists are to start excavations on a suspected ancient burial site to try to understand the significance of a Llangollen landmark. But the team will have to work carefully because the 9th century Pillar of Eliseg, a CADW-protected ancient monument, stands directly on top of the […]

  Saesnes

  Tuesday, 6th July, 2010

  Antiquarian, archaeology, Museums

  Bangor University, CADW, Edward Lhuyd, Llangollen Museum, Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales (RCAHMW), Trevor Hall, University of Chester, Valle Crusis Abbey

• Moel y Gaer hillfort

  3,000 year old Iron Age remains uncovered at North Wales archaeological dig AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL dig in North Wales has unearthed Iron Age remains thought to be about 3,000 years old. The excavation, by  Bangor University’s School of History and Denbighshire and Flintshire’s  Heather and Hillforts Project, was carried out on Moel y Gaer hillfort on […]

  Saesnes

  Saturday, 5th September, 2009

  archaeology

  Bangor University, Heather and Hillforts Project, Moel y Gaer hillfort

• WWI ‘poppy’ letter

  Hedd Wyn ‘poppy’ letter on show A wartime letter by poet Hedd Wyn [White Peace] in which the symbolism of the Remembrance Day poppy is evoked and predicted is on display at Bangor University. It is part of an exhibition on the shepherd and writer from Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd who died in World War I. […]

  Saesnes

  Friday, 9th November, 2007

  History, Poets and poetry

  Bangor University, Ellis Humphrey Evans, Hedd Wyn, Langemarck, Remembrance Day poppy, Welsh poet, Yr Arwr (The Hero)