Glamorgan

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  March 2, 2026

  Ogmore Castle

  Ogmore Castle (Castell Ogwr) is located in the Vale of Glamorgan, Wales. The Castle was built by the Normans in the 12th century to guard Glamorgan against attacks from the Welsh in the west. This was part of a trio of castles including Newport and Coity. Construction began around the year 1106, first as an…

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  October 24, 2025

  St Lythans Dolmen/Cromlech

  Less than 10 miles from Cardiff city centre in Wales is the village of St. Lythans. Here is where we find a neolithic cromlech, otherwise known as Maes y felin (The mill field), named after the field in which it sits. Another name for the monument is Gwal y filiast, a name shared by a…

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  July 2, 2025

  Carn Llechart

  Carn Llechart Bronze Age Ring Cairn in Neath Port Talbot, Wales. What remains here today is a circle of stones with a cist or kistvaen in the middle, of which the capstone is missing. Earliest account we could find is from William Camden’s Britannia (1695 edition):“on a mountain called Mynydd Gellionnen in the parish of…