A dig to unearth what is thought to be the earliest house found in Cardiff has resumed. The roundhouse was first discovered at Trelai Park in Caerau last year.
Archaeologists are now excavating the “remarkably well-preserved” floor, which has remained beneath what is now playing fields for around 3,500 years. The area where it was found is half-a-mile from Caerau Hillfort, a heritage site of national significance, and 200 metres from the already excavated Ely Roman Villa that was uncovered around a century ago.
Experts had hoped the structure would provide a missing link between the late Iron Age and early Roman period, showing what happened to people once they had moved on from the hillfort. But the discovery of a clay pot confirmed the site was much older than first believed, and was most likely built in the Bronze Age around 1500 BC.
