Ancient Wales: Around Llyn Digley (Summer Solstice 2010)

This video features film and images taken during a trip to North Wales in June 2010. As a 'Celtic' pilgrimage of sorts the video begins at the mythologically famous 'Lake Bala' of the Cerridwen and Taliesin story (the lake was believed to be a'cauldron' of sorts sacred to the witch-goddess Cerridwen, inspirer of bards and ovates) and moves to a number of sites from three eras around the ruined 200-400AD village of Llyn Digley on the Islands remote north-east coast. The Llyn Digley site itself features smelting sites indicative of prehistoric metalworking (i.e. primitive alchemy). Given it was on the furthest frontiers of the Roman Empire it is likely that Roman control over the indigenous Celts of this region would have been minimal and thus indigenous druidic rites/beliefs may still ahve played a prominent part in village community life in the 3rd to 4th century AD.

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