Meet the Team of Specialists, brought together by BBC / Open University, to examine Pen y Bryn and the surrounding area at Abergwyngregyn, Gwynedd

Dr Nick Barratt is a Historian and specialist medieval Archivist; he works with both the Public Record Office and the National Archives.

Dr Jonathan Foyle is a Historian of Architecture, Art and Culture, an Archaeologist and an Associate Curator of Historic Royal Palaces. Jonathan’s approach is to look at the buildings in minute detail, deconstructing them, then getting inside the minds of their designers and builders. His recent work has included unraveling the complex construction of Hampton Court Palace.

Miranda Krestovnikoff has a background in natural history and has a love of the countryside. She is passionately curious about the history hidden in our landscape.

Nick and Miranda at Bangor Archives

Shown on Television - History Mysteries BBC 2 Monday 30^th January 2006

The team examined the architecture, the archival evidence and the landscape of Aber. Their combined findings proved beyond doubt that Pen y Bryn, Bryn Llywelyn, Garth Celyn, Aber Garth Celyn (now Abergwyngregyn), was the home (the ‘demesne messuage’ known locally as Y Ty Hir / the Long House) of the thirteenth century Princes of Gwynedd; Llywelyn Fawr, Dafydd ap Llywelyn, Llywelyn ap Gruffudd, the first Prince of Wales.

Daily Telegraph Tuesday 31st January 2006 (Article Page 10)

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