Meredydd Williams said he dug up the small car park at Tomen y Mûr near Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, over a dispute with management.
Meredydd Williams, who is the guardian of one of Eryri’s great heritage treasures, said he dug up the small car park at Tomen y Mûr near Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, over a dispute with its management.
He was also angered by alleged damage caused by trucks passing the site, and accused heritage body Cadw, which manages the site with Eryri National Park Authority , of failing to order remedial works. Last year a voluntary access agreement between the landowner and Eryri NPA was not renewed. Neither party has returned to the table for talks and Mr Williams claims he’s been left to improve site facilities out of his own pocket.
On the former layby car park, he has plans for a “Mabinogion garden” to acknowledge the site’s importance in Welsh mythology: as Mûr-y-Castell, it was the legendary palace of Ardudwy. Eryri NPA said it cannot comment on the arrangements. Tomen y Mûr was a Roman military camp built in the late first century to subdue the Ordovices, a native Celtic tribe. Initially, a large timber fort was erected to house around 1,000 cavalry. Later, as tensions eased, the fort was rebuilt in stone early in the 2nd century to accommodate a much smaller force of around 500 infantry. Only a few decades later, it was abandoned.
He regularly walks the site to check its condition and look out for safety issues. Once he came across people climbing the chimney of a ruined farmhouse, partly restored by Eryri NPA in 2006. Other visitors have defied requests not to jump from walls. “If anything goes wrong, it will be me who answers for it,” sighed Mr Williams.
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