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Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1929, Page 7

A BURLED CITY. Important discoveries in the longburied city of Kenflg are likely to result from a new road scheme in that part of Glamorgan. Kenfig was buried in a great sandstorm in 1317. A conference is about to be called of the Porthcawl Council, the Port Talbot Corporation, and the Penybont Council to consider the construction of an arterial road between the seaside resort of Porthcawl and Port Talbot, Aberavon, and the valleys beyond. The new 1 road will go over the site of Keniig. Kenfig was a town and port of importance in the Middle Ages, lying on the highway from Cardiff 1o the West. It was burned by the Danes in 893, rebuilt by the Welsh, taken bj' the Normans, under the Karl of Gloucester, and later granted a. charter. This charter together with the silver nn.ee of the ancient borough,‘is now in the National Mu©urn of Wales. A castle was built by William, son of Robert Consul, in 1183. All that now remains of the town and the castle are two ban: walls, rising out of a grassy mound in tlie middie of a sandy desert, extending for many miles along the shores of the Bristol Channel. A little to the east of this sandy waste runs the old Roman highway, Via Julia Maritinia, still called by tlm Welsh “Hcol-y-Troedwvr” (“The Road of tlie Foot Soldiers.”)