On the programme of this Time Team dig, the name 'Caerau' was assumed to be a corruption of a Welsh word for fort. I have trouble with seeing any resemblance between the two. I played on the smaller hill fort(north of the time team site) as a child (I'm 76)& there was a spring there. I also came across an very old map online some years ago, which I can no longer find, which had 'cayre' on it. That is Latin for 'sacred', & as springs were sacred to the celts as a whole, I think this was mistakenly converted to a Welsh approximation. We always pronounced it the same as the Latin, though in later years other people pronounced it differently. I was born 1/4 of a mile from Caerau village & my Aunt was married in St.Mary of the Virgin church before it was vandalised.I loved that church & place. I now live in Tasmania.
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