Capel Garmon

A 2,000-year-old firedog, formed in the image of a mythical ox-horse beast and used in the hearth of an Iron Age chieftain's roundhouse, has been given to National Museums Wales after government ministers agreed it could replace inheritance tax under ...

A 2,000-year-old Iron Age fire guard has been accepted into Wales' national museum in lieu of inheritance tax. The Capel Garmon Firedog, once one of a pair on the hearth of a chieftain's roundhouse, is regarded as one of the finest surviving ...

Children at a Conwy primary school have recorded a song of hope to the Chilean miners trapped underground. The pupils at Ysgol Capel Garmon hope the song, in Welsh, will be played on Chilean radio and be presented to the miners after their rescue.