July
02
/ 2025
Below the sun-faded football pitches and well-trodden dog-walking trails of Cardiff's Trelai Park, archaeologists and volunteers together, have found more three Bronze Age cremation burials and the outline of a new ancient building. Fascinatingly, these burial pits are filled with cremated human remains. This is just 2 years after the ‘ earliest house’ dated to 1500 BC was found in the exact same spot. There's also a sign of a timber circle further down in the ground, thought to be from the Early Bronze Age (around 2000–1600 BC), bringing fresh depth (and complications) to the already convoluted timeline at the site, reports a press release. The Caerau and Ely Rediscovering (CAER) Heritage Project, in its fourth phase, has come back
