Reading your inspiration part, my archaeology teacher was James Dyer . Back in the 80s . And he wrote books on hill forts . Good Times. Thank you for this programme.
James Dyer was my Schoolteacher and then later he was my Dads Tutor at Putteridge, He roped everybody around in to volunteer at his digs. One year it was Ravensburgh Castle just outside Hexton and I spent a day or two with my dead helping out. Ha had excavated one of the entrances and the scale of the banks and ditches was awesome for me as a child to see. He was a very inspirational figure.
Excellent photography. Small points:- 1. PEN-Y-FFRWD-LLWYD, 2, CAER MAURRICE (or Morris) .Please read Samuel Meyricks book on Cardiganshire- he states that this is Caer Maurrice. Cadwgan was an encampment nearby. The tithe map shows the farm of this name as CAEDWGAN- not caerdwgan or Caer caedwgan. The gaer seems to have been renamed recently as Caer Cadwgan. To the local people , in recent times,it seems to have only been known as Y GAER. Below this is a stone that has been named Llech Cynon- a burial stone with the person called Cynon buried there as he was the one who slayed the soldier buried under the Hirfaen Gwyddog (standing stone)- possibly Irish.
Thank you for your feedback, we tried very hard to get the research right. I have seen the film now and realize the banner title to " PEN-Y-FFRWD-LWYD" is misspelt , for that I apologize. However I think the map spelling and male narration is correct . I will put a correction into the subtext. Trouble is that everybody calls their fort 'Y Gaer' (The Fort) at one time in history we didn't have surnames, so in a complex world we do need to hone identity. I would love a copy of Samuel Meyricks "The History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan" but I would need a small mortgage to obtain a copy! I think we got a lot of our information from Hanes Ceredigion and Cellan History which I assume sourced originally from Meyricks book? There was also a fascinating thesis someone had written about Cairns in the south east Ceredigion borderlands which also had information on the Hillfort and locality. I think we mention the Llech Cynon as Cynon's grave, although we didn't see the story with Hirfaen Gwyddog, thank you for highlighting that! Funnily enough I was up near there this afternoon, I would like to try and locate Llech Cynon which apparently upstream a little and fallen, when the weather becomes dryer I will return. I did learn one thing from this afternoons visit that on the road above and from a point called Cefnbryn you can see Castell Perth Mawr in the distance and directly in between lies the Caer Cadwgan Hillfort. There is a direct line of sight over some distance between one and the other hillforts. I notice this a lot on these west Wales Hillforts.
Great stuff, can't wait!!!
Reading your inspiration part, my archaeology teacher was James Dyer . Back in the 80s . And he wrote books on hill forts . Good Times. Thank you for this programme.
James Dyer was my Schoolteacher and then later he was my Dads Tutor at Putteridge, He roped everybody around in to volunteer at his digs. One year it was Ravensburgh Castle just outside Hexton and I spent a day or two with my dead helping out. Ha had excavated one of the entrances and the scale of the banks and ditches was awesome for me as a child to see.
He was a very inspirational figure.
Excellent photography. Small points:- 1. PEN-Y-FFRWD-LLWYD, 2, CAER MAURRICE (or Morris) .Please read Samuel Meyricks book on Cardiganshire- he states that this is Caer Maurrice. Cadwgan was an encampment nearby. The tithe map shows the farm of this name as CAEDWGAN- not caerdwgan or Caer caedwgan. The gaer seems to have been renamed recently as Caer Cadwgan. To the local people , in recent times,it seems to have only been known as Y GAER. Below this is a stone that has been named Llech Cynon- a burial stone with the person called Cynon buried there as he was the one who slayed the soldier buried under the Hirfaen Gwyddog (standing stone)- possibly Irish.
Thank you for your feedback, we tried very hard to get the research right. I have seen the film now and realize the banner title to " PEN-Y-FFRWD-LWYD" is misspelt , for that I apologize. However I think the map spelling and male narration is correct . I will put a correction into the subtext.
Trouble is that everybody calls their fort 'Y Gaer' (The Fort) at one time in history we didn't have surnames, so in a complex world we do need to hone identity. I would love a copy of Samuel Meyricks "The History and Antiquities of the County of Cardigan" but I would need a small mortgage to obtain a copy! I think we got a lot of our information from Hanes Ceredigion and Cellan History which I assume sourced originally from Meyricks book? There was also a fascinating thesis someone had written about Cairns in the south east Ceredigion borderlands which also had information on the Hillfort and locality. I think we mention the Llech Cynon as Cynon's grave, although we didn't see the story with Hirfaen Gwyddog, thank you for highlighting that! Funnily enough I was up near there this afternoon, I would like to try and locate Llech Cynon which apparently upstream a little and fallen, when the weather becomes dryer I will return.
I did learn one thing from this afternoons visit that on the road above and from a point called Cefnbryn you can see Castell Perth Mawr in the distance and directly in between lies the Caer Cadwgan Hillfort. There is a direct line of sight over some distance between one and the other hillforts. I notice this a lot on these west Wales Hillforts.