A macabre gold ring with a creepy enamel skull was found along with a trove of medieval and post-medieval artifacts by amateur metal detectorists in Wales. The treasures, which include a cache of ...

A secret medieval tunnel has been discovered near the site of a soaring 12th-century Abbey in Wales. Electrical workers from Western Power Distribution (WPD) in Wales accidentally discovered the ...

When students from the University of Chester pulled out their tools and began to dig in northern Wales, they weren’t sure what they would find. Hopefully, there was evidence of a Roman occupation — ...

Scores of skeletons and artifacts — some dating back 1,600 years — were found in a long-hidden cemetery on the grounds of a college campus in Wales. During 2016, construction of a new road to connect ...

In the year 1000 AD, there was nowhere in Wales which could be considered to be urban. In the 300 years from the start of the 11th century, scores of towns were founded: Bala, established in 1309, was ...

How do you lose a town that once housed 10,000 people? Quite easily, it would seem. For hundreds of years, a bustling medieval town lay hidden in the British countryside, until an amateur ...

Wales is famed for its dramatic and imposing medieval castles – the Edwardian giants of Caernarfon, Conwy, Harlech, and Beaumaris dominate the tourism brochures. But tucked into woodlands, perched on ...

In a small Welsh village, Nikki Vousden and Roderick Bale were enjoying an evening stroll in the woods when a rock with strange carvings by the side of a stream caught their attention. Both ...

CEREDIGION, WALES—Traces of the Llanllyr nunnery have been discovered near the village of Pontrhydfendigaid in Mid Wales, along with its cemetery and a Tudor mansion. The rare medieval convent had ...

MONMOUTHSHIRE, WALES—BBC News reports that a medieval tunnel system was discovered in southern Wales by a team of technicians who were moving an electrical pole. The four-foot-tall tunnels are located ...