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Cardiff’s Martyr’s Memorial

June 28, 2013

The Heritage Tortoise … prowling round the heritage of Wales and the wider world, strolling...

Laleston Stones Trail

November 5, 2013

Laleston and Merthyr Mawr are planning a loop off the Wales Coast Path featuring their...

Sir Henry Sidney and the Three Bears

July 7, 2013

Heritage footpath projects are full of traps for the unwary. Footpaths tend to slice across...

Grosmont: borough and village street

March 4, 2015

We had some epic days out with the Gwent County History Association. In 2004 a...

Early Medieval Inscribed Stones

June 30, 2013

I have the final volume of Nancy Edwards’ Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones to...

Coedcae and the Cwm

August 4, 2020

Having found the ruins of Coedcae Garw thanks to @mikekohnstamm (https://www.heritagetortoise.co.uk/2020/07/coedcae-garw/) I’ve reverse engineered the...