Hidden Britain AtlasOpen the map
All places › Lost treasure
Lost treasure

The Capel Garmon Firedog

Capel Garmon, Conwy

An iron firedog with ox heads, found in a peat bog.

In 1852 a man digging a ditch near Capel Garmon found a magnificent iron firedog, used in a hearth to hold burning logs. It has long ox heads with knobbed horns.

Read the full story, see it on the map, get directions and find what else is nearby in the free Hidden Britain Atlas map.

Open The Capel Garmon Firedog on the mapReport a sighting here
When
Iron Age
Where
53.0800, -3.7500
Group
Lost treasure

Visiting

Displayed at the National Museum Cardiff.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations by Cale Mills
Read the full story in the book

The Ledger of Lost Artifacts and Civilizations

Not every mystery needs a lost continent. This book investigates fifty-nine real and often overlooked puzzles from the ancient and modern world: a temple older than farming itself, astonishing structures, out-of-place artifacts, and technologies lost to time. Each case is weighed honestly, with a clear ledger of the case for and against, so you can make up your own mind. Some cases collapse under scrutiny. Others remain genuinely unexplained. All of them are stranger than Atlantis.

Buy on AmazonAll books by Cale Mills

Nearby mysteries