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Llyn Cerrig Bach

RAF Valley, Anglesey

Iron Age swords and chains found while building a wartime runway.

In 1942, peat dug for the RAF runway at Valley came up full of metal. It turned out to be 181 Iron Age objects thrown into a lake as offerings: swords, spears, a trumpet, cauldrons and a slave chain with five neck rings.

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When
c. 300 BC–AD 100
Where
53.2570, -4.5350
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

Finds are at Amgueddfa Cymru, Cardiff.

Cover of The Ledger of Lost Britain by Cale Mills
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The Ledger of Lost Britain

The Romans arrived in AD 43. For most people that is where the history of Britain begins. But by the time the legions landed, people had already been living on these islands for thousands of years. They had hunted, farmed, mined flint, dragged stones across the country, raised a hill by hand, and buried their dead in great tombs. They left no written words. What they left was the ground itself. Every place in this book can be visited, or has been dug up, or is in a museum.

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