Hidden History in the Welsh Mountains

Hidden History in the Welsh Mountains

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A really fabulous handbook to help every reader walker and researcher get to grips with the common monuments and various oddities of the Welsh rural landscape The breadth of Haymans text and images relayed in an approachable style shows just how many miles he and his surveyor colleagues have walked over the years An excellent read Current Archaeology

The mountains of Wales are rich in natural resources which have been exploited over millennia often by people who also lived and farmed there This human activity has left a wealth of evidence in the landscape revealing fascinating insights into what life was like in the Welsh uplands

Featuring more than 200 sites from Neolithic chambered tombs Iron Age hillforts and shepherds huts to twentiethcentury reservoirs the World Heritage landscapes of Blaenavon and the North Wales slate industry this book offers both a rich visual history and a practical guide to archaeological features hidden in the Welsh mountains Each section provides physical descriptions of the kinds of archaeological evidence to be found tips on how to identify sites accurately and an explanation of why these features are found where they are

This is a book for anyone interested in the history and archaeology of the upland landscapes of Wales in the form of bumps dips scatters of stones and standing ruins of cairns and hillforts old quarries mines sheepfolds and the longlost houses of shepherds peat cutters miners and poor farmers It offers an enriching history for curious hikers and the opportunity to enhance our appreciation and enjoyment of upland Wales

Richard Hayman is an independent historian and archaeologist who writes about the cultural history of buildings and places in Britain Between 2000 and 2014 he contributed to the Uplands Archaeology Initiative organised by RCAHM Wales during which time he explored and recorded unknown archaeological sites in every upland region of Wales

Paperback 288 pages 228 x 152 mm Jan 2025
208 colour photographs
ISBN 9781910839805

Hidden History in the Welsh Mountains

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