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Offline Hugo

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #465 on: December 30, 2010, 06:26:11 pm »
You're in the right area Yorkie although you can't see any bare hills in the background.
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« Reply #466 on: December 30, 2010, 06:28:43 pm »
Looks like the remains of a Huntsman 28 Yorkie.  8)


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« Reply #467 on: December 30, 2010, 06:37:20 pm »
No chance - Huntsman has a transom stern!     L0L     L0L

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #468 on: December 30, 2010, 07:02:42 pm »
You must have seen it Yorkie, although it is stranded it's not far from the waves.

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« Reply #469 on: December 30, 2010, 07:26:15 pm »
No idea - only other suggestion is Caernarfon.   

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« Reply #470 on: December 30, 2010, 07:30:32 pm »
Wrong side Yorkie and it's not opposite Caernarfon 
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #471 on: December 30, 2010, 08:06:20 pm »
Beaumaris then is all I can think of.   After that if it's wrong I'll just have to go round the coast!     $uk

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #472 on: December 30, 2010, 08:34:03 pm »
Beaumaris is to the east of the bridge so it's got to be on the other side of the bridge.

Remember the clues are there:-

Bare Hill
Waves
Anglesey

More clues and you're bound to get it:-
Site of a battle
Opposite  Y Felinheli

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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #473 on: December 30, 2010, 09:49:52 pm »
Are you referring to the battle on the straits where the Romans subdued the Druids?

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« Reply #474 on: December 30, 2010, 09:58:58 pm »
No, much later when those nasty Normans under Edward 1 made a pontoon of bridges to cross the straits.

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« Reply #475 on: December 31, 2010, 08:45:58 am »
I give up!
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This is the account but no definite location is given:

After successfully capturing Anglesey, Luke de Tany's men constructed a bridge of boats across the Menai Strait which separates Anglesey from the mainland. Edward's plan was to cross the River Conwy while de Tany crossed the Menai and attacked from the north. However, de Tany ignored the plan, believing he could defeat the Welsh without Edward's aid. He had contacted some of the clergy in Bangor who had promised to aid him by giving a signal when the time was right to attack.

The bridge was finished in September that year, and on 6 November, de Tany and his men crossed the bridge having been given the signal to attack. Llywelyn ap Gruffydd had been alerted to the crossing somehow, and emerged with a large army to meet the English as they crossed. A rising tide cut off de Tany's men from the bridge. When they tried to flee, many of them drowned when their heavy armour dragged them under the sea. Walter of Guisborough wrote an account of the battle:


Which takes me back to my answer of Menai Straits West of the bridge.
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #476 on: December 31, 2010, 11:15:30 am »
OK Yorkie let's recap:-

Bare Hill    =      Moel
the             =         Y
Wave        =       Don
Anglesey   =      Ynys Mon

So there you have it. the place is   MOEL Y DON    the last part of Section 6 of the Anglesey Coastal walk.     If you had searched Google for the answer you would have seen the first item under the heading "Battle of Moel Y Don"   
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #477 on: December 31, 2010, 11:19:39 am »
Not being a Welsh speaker I did not see the relevence of the "clues" - neither did the Welsh speakers by the look of it!
C'est la vie as the Germans say!      L0L

Also cannot find Moel y Don on any map of the area opposite Y Felinheli -   :rage:  :rage:
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #478 on: December 31, 2010, 11:40:51 am »
So from one Wreck to another.  Where is this wreck?    Not in Llandudno but not too far away.
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Re: Quiz Time (General Knowledge & Out of Area)
« Reply #479 on: December 31, 2010, 12:07:44 pm »
Is that the one on Newborough beach?