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Din Lligwy
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Moelfre, Wales
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Where else have you seen a complete iron age village - check it out on-line, it blew away a teacher friend from Birmingham who wanted some info for her pupils. It also has a burial stone and an ancient church, and is near good beaches and to Moelfre with fish&chip shop and café.
Again, taking the road away from Lligwy beach and straight on at the crossroads towards Moelfre, Din Lligwy is reached by taking the gate near the lay-by on the right and following the path through the fields and small wood to an area covering more than a quarter of a football pitch. This fascinating ancient village features the remains of two round huts and several rectangular buildings encircled by a stone wall. Discoveries of coins, pottery and glass date the settlement to the late Roman period in the 3rd and 4th centuries, though traces of structures outside the enclosure suggest the site may have been in use since the Iron Age. Thought to belong to a farming community, the walls were probably built to contain livestock, the round buildings are thought to have been dwellings while the rectangular buildings may have been used as barns and workshops.
Again, taking the road away from Lligwy beach and straight on at the crossroads towards Moelfre, Din Lligwy is reached by taking the gate near the lay-by on the right and following the path through the fields and small wood to an area covering more than a quarter of a football pitch. This fascinat…