King Charles’ Bowling Green, Gwaenysgor Viewpoint, Prestatyn, Flintshire. The flattish top of Bryn Llwyn is the site of a Neolithic settlement.
The flattish top of Bryn Llwyn, known as King Charles’ Bowling Green, is the site of a Neolithic settlement. Excavated by Glenn 1912-14, who also dug into a Bonze Age round barrow on the summit which contained a cist with cremation burial. Powell ,trying to locate specific features of the settlement in 1951, found only a destroyed tumulus, worked over/ploughed soil with charcoal and flint fragments, and a broken leaf-shaped arrow-head. he said "the hill seemed to form an important site for cross-sea navigation because of its splendid location." Glenn had found 15 leaf-shaped arrow-heads plus a wide variety of implements, pottery & flints, animal bones, cockle & oyster shells, pot boilers, sling stones/pebbles and cannel coal armlet. Other finds from the hill (discoverd by metal detector) incude a medieval copper alloy annular brooch, 1991, and a silver gilt finger ring.
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Location: King Charles’ Bowling Green, Gwaenysgor Viewpoint, Prestatyn, Flintshire, North Wales, UK
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