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The Lost City of Trellech

Trellech, Monmouthshire

Once one of the biggest towns in Wales, found again by a man who bought a field.

In the 1200s Trellech was one of the largest towns in Wales, bigger than Cardiff, with an iron industry. Raids, plague and fire caused it to shrink to a small village, and its streets were lost.

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When
Medieval
Where
51.7400, -2.7200
Group
Lost & drowned villages

Visiting

The village has Harold's Stones, a holy well and a summer dig that sometimes welcomes visitors.

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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