Rhos (North Wales)

The most famous monarch was perhaps Cuneglasus, the son of Owain Danwyn, who lived in the early 6th century and was denounced by the monk, Gildas.

The Gwynedd Archaeological Trust has undertaken a trial excavation of this hillfort and set up related information boards in Colwyn Bay Library.

Their investigations revealed a massive defensive stone wall, well built and faced with good-quality limestone blocks originally rising to about ten feet high.

These defences are unlike those of Iron Age hillforts but comparable with similar Medieval fortifications, so may represent a possible stronghold of the Kings of Rhos.

Along with its three adjoining cantrefi, the area was known as Y Berfeddwlad or the "Middle Country" lying between Gwynedd and Powys and often changing hands between those two powerful kingdoms.