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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...

Tre-boeth – the ‘warm town’?

August 25, 2020

This is another little farmstead that I must have walked past at least a dozen...

Alternative routes to Penrhys

October 11, 2016

(or How the Old Poet Got to Penrhys – part 2) The route over Mynydd...

The pilgrim game

September 5, 2017

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

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...

Some Trust In Chariots

April 6, 2016

We are still having fun with the wall paintings at Llancarfan. The most recent phase...