I’m creating a map of Britannia circa AD 550-650, how does this look? Do you know of any point of interest in wales that I could add?

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1. Note: This map is not meant to be 100% accurate, and I’m not Welsh, so I’m missing some of the culture, keep this in mind.

2. For which game/system and is it made via Inkarnate? Or am going down the wrong path…

3. was going to say you dont have nearly enough castles – they’re everywhere in Wales – but you’re probably right for the time period – the dark ages.

4. How about important Neolithic sites and Iron Age hillforts?

5. You should mark Ynys Enlli. Because it’s the tits.

6. This is great as I’m reading these books for the 1st time, and I keep having to the wiki place names to find out where they are. And then use Google maps to see them in relation to other places. I’m assuming you’re going to do Dumnonia too?

7. Have you placed Caer Guricon where Shrewsbury is? It looks like it in terms of relationship to the Wirral and where Barmouth is, but the mountains come too far east and there’s no Severn there, so I’m wondering if the cut-off settlement on the river east of it is Shrewsbury? If you’re going far enough east in that area, it’d be cool to see the Wrekin marked – which was an iron age hillfort and may have been active in the period you’re covering. It’s certainly a landmark in the modern day.

   The myth is that a giant, angry at Shrewsbury (I forget why) was heading there with a big shovel full of dirt to bury Shrewsbury with when he came across a cobbler on the road. He asked the cobbler how far it was to Shrewsbury. The quick-thinking cobbler, realising what the giant planned, said of the sack of worn-out shoes he was carrying home to repair, that he’s worn them all out since leaving Shrewsbury, it was so far away. The giant was discouraged and gave up. He lay down and became the Wrekin, and his shovel of dirt became the Ercall.

8. Possibly also Caerwent, and Lydney had a Roman temple and a couple of villas.

9. This is gorgeous!