DIGGING UP HISTORY.
There is a possibility of interesting! discoveries in the buried city of Kenfig, Glamorgan, if a propsal to build a new arterial road in South A\ ales materialises. To connect the rising Talbot, Aberavon, and the valleys boseaside resort of Porthcawl with Port yond, the road would lead along the site of the old city of Tvenfig, which was buried in a sandstorm about 1317. Kenfig was then a town of note and was bigger than Cardiff. Tt was built bv the Danes in 893, rebuilt by the Welsh, taken by the Normans under the Earl of Gloucester, and granted a charter. This charter and the silver mace are now in the National Museum of Wales.
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Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1929, Page 6
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119DIGGING UP HISTORY. Hokitika Guardian, 1 May 1929, Page 6
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