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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...

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...

More about Cefn Carnau

May 23, 2020

The mother and toddler group in our village was the heart of the community. I...

The pilgrim game

September 5, 2017

When I was an undergraduate, way back when, we played board games like Risk, sometimes...

Early Medieval Inscribed Stones

June 30, 2013

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

The Politics of the Royal Bed

January 25, 2015

… or ‘the politics of The Royal Bed’ – this being the title of Sion...