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Excerpt from The Buried City of Kenfig
Where the sad cry of the sea-bird and the unceasing lap of the tireless tide are almost the only sounds that meet the ear of the wanderer who tracks along the Glamorgan beach over the site of the buried town - Kenfig - formerly the pride of its possessors, content and happy in its castle, its lands arable and pasture, its corporate and domestic life, its residents and denizens - in fortune's varying colours drest. This once active centre lies deep below the all-devouring sand Which has engulphed everything but one solitary fragment of a wall yet left, in cruel irony, to mark the actual spot where clash of sword and buckler, clatter of hoofs, and clang of arms were heard half a thousand years ago. But the history of the place remains scattered in ancient manuscripts; and to Mr. Thomas Gray, of Port Talbot, we all owe a debt of praise, for he has gleaned the scattered aftermath of its annals, reconstructed to the eye of fancy its edifices, clothed anew with vitality the dry bones of its antiquity, and with the true art of the archaeologist caused us to feel, as it were, that we live in the very times.
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