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Ewloe Castle, built by Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, is to to be auctioned with four other lots which are expected to fetch more than £500,000 in total.

Although privately owned, the castle is under the custodianship of Welsh historic monuments agency Cadw, and its character “must be preserved”.

Estimates as to the castle’s origins vary, but it is thought to have been built around 1257, as a hunting lodge for the Welsh prince Llywelyn ap Gruffudd.

It stands close to the site where 200 Welshmen, led by the king of north Wales Owain Gwynedd, ambushed – and nearly killed – King Henry II in 1157.

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190,000 wills, some dating back to the 14th century, have been put online on the National Library of Wales’ website.

Among the wills available at the click of a button are Twm Sion Cati’s, known as the Welsh Robin Hood, and hymn writer William Williams, Pantycelyn.

Officials said it had taken more than five years to digitise the documents.

The National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth said the wills dated from the 14th Century until 1858, when civil probate was introduced, and 1,000 of them were written in Welsh.

It said the project was “good news for family historians, social historians…and the inquisitive”.

A hill fort has been found in Denbighshire that may date back 3,000 years.

Experts excavated Moel y Gaer in the Clwydian Range after tests suggested the Iron Age settlement (700 BC to 34 AD) might be older than first thought.

Samples of metal slag and dry stone facing taken from an entrance suggest parts may date back to the Bronze Age (2,300 BC to 700 BC).

Flint Castle in Wales has survived many bloody battles, but now it is being closed to the public because of drunken British teens.

They claim their staff have been spat upon and threatened by youngsters from nearby housing estates, who smash bottles and treat the ancient ruins as a drinking den.

John Wallis, site operations manager for Cadw – the Welsh equivalent of English Heritage – who run the castle, said the behaviour of the youths was making it too dangerous to keep it open to the public. ’We are extremely frustrated with the ongoing spate of vandalism,’ he said.

Contractors working on flood defences in Wales have come across the 17th century footings of the town of Llanrwst’s historic bridge.

“As soon as we realised what we had uncovered we called in the Environment Agency’s archaeologist Ed Wilson who confirmed the significance of the find,” said Gareth.

“It was the actual stone protruding away form the wall which caused all the excitement.

“What first raised eyebrows was the old Victorian cobbled road that we came across. It was only after that we unearthed the old foundations.