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Merson coming out of retirement to play for Caerau

Merson coming out of retirement to play for Caerau

Paul Merson has been cleared to play for third-tier Welsh side Caerau. Merson just so happens to be mates with Caerau’s secretary, Dai Hooper. And it turns out that Hooper has managed to convince the ex-Gunner to return to action for his club. “The international clearance has just come through. I tried to text Paul, but he was busy at work. I have spoken to him and he is over the moon,” Hooper…

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Archaeologists shocked to find 5,000-year-old battlefield in prehistoric Cardiff

Archaeologists hoping to discover Roman and Iron Age finds at a Welsh hillfort were shocked to unearth pottery and arrowheads predating their predicted finds by 4,000 years at the home of a powerful Iron Age community, including flint tools and weapons from 3,600 BC.

Caerau, an Iron Age residency on the outskirts of Cardiff, would have been a battleground more than 5,000 years ago according to the arrowheads, awls, scrapers and polished stone axe fragments found during the surprising excavation.

“Quite frankly, we were amazed,” says Dr Dave Wyatt, the co-director of the dig, from Cardiff University.

“Nobody predicted this. Our previous excavation [in 2013] yielded pottery and a mass of finds, including five large roundhouses, showing Iron Age occupation, and there’s evidence of Roman and medieval activity. Read more.