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Tre'r Ceiri

Yr Eifl, Gwynedd

The Town of the Giants, with 150 stone houses on a mountaintop.

Tre'r Ceiri sits 450 metres up on Yr Eifl. Inside its walls, which still stand up to four metres high in places, are the remains of about 150 stone houses.

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When
From c. 200 BC
Where
52.9740, -4.4230
Group
Circles & monuments

Visiting

Free. A steep climb from the road above Llanaelhaearn.

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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