How do you misplace a town that once put up 10,000 people ? Quite easily , it would seem . For one C of years , a bustling medieval townspeople lay hidden in the British countryside , until an amateur archaeologist buy it on a suspicion that ultimatelyproved correct . Now , 15 years after starting his excavations of the site on the English - Welsh border , Stuart Wilson has finally been vindicate by finding theLost City of Trellech .
Archaeologists have been searching for the mediaeval townspeople for a while , but had mistakenly been look for it around the modern - Clarence Day Greenwich Village of Trellech , in Wales . But back in 2002 , Wilson , who was working in a toll stall at the time , was informed of a farmer on the English - Welsh border who had been finding bits of pottery in molehill , and thought that the subterranean mammals might be on to something .
After shoot the breeze the farm in question he found the remains of a wall . After take a bit of a pound and buy the land when it next do up for sale for £ 32,000 , his ab initio derided investment has now paid off . “ People thought I was demented and really I should have corrupt a firm rather than a field , ” Wilson , who was in his early 20s at the time , told the Guardian . “ But it turned out to be the best decision of my spirit . I do n’t rue it at all . ”
It has been a labor of lovemaking for Wilson to excavate the site over the last 15 years . But , with the aid of over 1,000 volunteers , they have expose at least eight building , including the possible foundations of a moated manor house house that is thought to have had two residence and a court . As soon as the conditions improve , Wilson plansto spend much of this time of year investigating this structure further .
During its efflorescence , the medieval town would not have been an unimportant settlement , with a population around a one-fourth of that of London during the same period . It is thought to have been founded by the De Clare category in the thirteenth C to manufacture weapon system , armor , and other military equipment , and chop-chop grew as it attracted local Farmer and labourer to the urban core .
But the industrialized Ithiel Town crumbled after repeated attacks from the enemies of the De Clare family , and its position on the border made it the target for Welsh resistance against the English . twin with diseases that swept Trellech , and the town presently fell into ruin .
Wilson is now practice for permission to establish a visitors center on the primer coat , as well as a bivouac to help encourage tourists to chatter the dig and learn about its account .
