It's like the Welsh Atlantis - except that we know for sure that Trellech actually existed. Trellech was once the biggest city in Wales, bigger even than Cardiff. In 1296 it was thriving - but two hundred years later it was gone, devastated by war, plague and crop failure. The One Show
Wasn't Cardiff basically a village until a couple fo hundred years ago? Wales had very little urbanisation until industrialisation. There was also a town under Kenfig sands that was drowned by sea dunes if I remeber correctly. This kind of think is more common than people realise, Dunwich is Suffolk was one of the richest and most important towns in England until it fell into the sea. If you were really looking for a Welsh Atlantis the legend of Cantref Mawr in Cardigan Bay is closer.
Thats what I meant Cantref Gwaelod not Cantref Mawr, Doh Much of Cardigan Bay was dry land until a few thousand years ago, you can still see tree stumps etc sometimes when there are very low tides.
Nice find...I didnt realise we had urbanisations that big here: quarter the size of London is still a fair size for those times, especially in relation to Wales.
But where the feck is Trellech? Typical London-centric media to say Trellech, Wales. We wanna know whether is Gog or Hwntw, sub-Scouse or nasal Anglesey, Kerdiff or Jack!
Most definitely Hwntw, it's 5 miles south of Monmouth apparently... http://www.archaeology.co.uk/directory/viewdig.asp?cat=1&dig=161
thats very interesting! A quarter the size of london is fecking huge for nowadays let alone then. Just out of interest, how big is cardiff in relation to london?
Cardiff 300,000 London 7,000,000 Therefore London is more than 20 times the size of Cardiff, and if you include the outskirts, that some people call London, the total is 11/12 million. London has more than double the population of the whole of Wales.
Aye Medieval London was just the square mile of the City of London. Until relatively recent times most Cities were tiny compared to modern metropolises.
