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the crags, perliaps as they were making for Drws Ardndwy 

 or the pass mto the mountams along the hne of Sarn Helen 

 between the Manods and Migneint. 



There was not a moment to be lost. Tlie maidens were 

 placed between the crags and the lake, and the men of 

 Ardudwy drew themselves up in fi-ont and fought and fell to 

 the last man. The maidens, no unwilling captives, seeing 

 their lovers fall, threw themselves into the lake, hence called 

 to this day Llyn y morwynion (The JMaidens' Lake), while thei)- 

 lovers repose beside it under the tumuli known as Beddau 

 gwyr Ardudwy (the graves of the men of Ardudwy). The 

 word Ardudwy is not unlike Ordowic. 



I will not, however, criticise the story farther, but only 

 pick out from it the tradition that another tribe lived iii 

 touch with the Ordovices on the north ; and next appeal to 

 Archaeology. As I was once wandering along the coast of 

 Anglesea I saw a line of stones evenly laid i)i the cliff and 

 covered by a heavy surface soil, and that by blown sand. I 

 recognised the floor of one of the old Cyttiau'r Gwyddelod 

 (the cots of the Gwyddel) like those which I had in other 

 localities near helped to explore with General Pitt-Rivers, 

 and which have been described by Mr. Stanley of Penrhos. 

 The sea was cutting back tlie cliff and exposing the whole 

 section. Below on the beach was the handmill, just dropped 

 from its place on the floor of the house above. But here 

 was a measure of its antiquity. The floor was covered deep 

 by the surface soil ; the soil was overblown by sand, which 

 could only have been carried there before the sea had removed 

 the long slope up which it travelled ; and there was the high 

 cliff, a measure of the work the sea had had to do. Besides 

 this there was the previously discovered evidence of stone 

 implements in similar cyttiau on the mainland or in Anglesea. 



So here Ave had tradition applying the name of Gwyddelod 

 to the people who lived north of the Ordovices in the age 

 wlien polished stone implements were used in Wales, and a 

 confirmation of their great antiquity in the physical geographv 

 of the district. 



All round the frontiers of the Ordovices the hilltops bristle 

 with camps ; the mound-graves of their buried warriors are not 

 uncommon. The less perishable weapons and relics of their 

 work turn up here and there all over the country, and above 

 all there are the people, " an ancient race tenacious of its 

 idiosyncrasies, and distinguishable by physical features as 

 well as character." All these various facts as far as they go are 



