‘Prehistory under our football pitches’: bronze age finds excavated from Cardiff sports field

An aerial view of the Trelai Park site in Cardiff, where archaeologists have found the remains of bronze age houses and, possibly, a timber stone circle. Photograph: Vivian Thomas

At first sight, it does not feel like the sort of spot where you may happen upon extraordinary insights into the daily lives of the people who inhabited bronze age Britain.

But in the corner of a sports field in Cardiff, archaeologists and volunteers are uncovering a trove of artefacts on the site of two roundhouses that give clues into how people lived and worked there 3,500 years ago.