This week's website is a lively and well-illustrated virtual gateway to a scheduled ancient monument - Castell Henllys Iron Age Hill Fort.Archaeology has been carried out on this windy Pembrokeshire site for twenty years, so there's now a considerable accumulation of knowledge about what life was like for its original occupants well over 2000 years ago. According to the website, Castell Henllys means 'the castle of the Princes court' in Welsh.The Castell Henllys interpretive centre, run by the Pembrokeshire Coast National Park Authority, was set up to promote and inform the public about Celtic history and culture.What's great about this website is that it is pitched towards a slightly younger audience than some archaeology sites - and this makes it eminently suitable for teachers to use as a history resource.There are maps of how the site used to look when it was inhabited, how to get there and so on. Visitors to the actual hill fort can visit reconstructed dwellings, and get a flavour of what life was like.Recently a BBC TV series was filmed on the site, when a group of volunteers lived as Iron Age people. In the 'Living in History ' series, a group of willing volunteers wore clothes of the period, ate the sort of food the hut dwellers would have eaten and slept in reconstructed round houses.
