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"[Garth Celyn] a place that holds the nation's memory" Gwynfor Evans  Garth Celyn, Abergwyngregyn, Gwynedd SH 65827273 Garth Celyn is a raised promontory of land, an ancient watch place on the fringe of Eryri / Snowdonia the mountainous region of north-west Wales. It overlooks the Irish Sea and has wide sweeping views across the Menai Strait to the island of Môn / Anglesey and beyond. It is a place of great antiquity, with Neolithic, Roman and medieval remains under its soil. Anglesey and the nearby Great Orme’s Head had a wealth of copper deposits. In the uplands to the west of the river Conwy lead, silver and other minerals were mined. The garth protected the ancient Lafan Sands pedestrian crossing that once led from the mainland at this point to Anglesey. Above the Garth, the pre-Roman hillfort Maes y Gaer provided an additional look out place over the routeways that led inland from the crossing. The area first enters the history books in AD 60. In that year Suetonius Paulinus led twenty-five thousand men from their base on the bank of the river Dee to invade Anglesey, which was then the stronghold of the druids, the learned leaders who were organising resistance to the Roman invasion of Britannia. The Roman soldiers forded the sands at this point and Tacitus later recorded the savage massacre of the local people that took place. |
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