A councillor from Snowdonia wants the Welsh Government to buy the site of Owain Glyndŵr's home just a mile from the English border. Although the hill does not look like anything special to the naked eye, it was once the home of the last native prince of Wales.
A petition will be considered for debate in the Senedd after it hit 10,000 signatures, five months after it was started by Plaid Cymru councillor Elfed Wyn ap Elwyn. Historians believe the legendary Welsh leader could have been born at Sycharth Castle, near Llansilin in Montgomeryshire, however, English forces burned it to the ground in 1403.
According to Coflein, the online database for the National Monuments Record of Wales, at Sycharth you can find the "well preserved earthworks of a medieval castle" which would have contained what a 1390 poem described as a 'fine wooden house atop a green hill' with a 'great lordly hall' within the bailey, a mill, fishponds and a deer park containing a lodge.
