As the country basks in sunshine, the heatwave is delighting archaeologists by revealing hidden ruins.
The hot weather has provided the perfect conditions for ancient sites to become visible from the air, according to the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. Experts are rushing to document the monuments, which appear in crop marks — patterns of growth in ripening crops and parched grasslands — before the dry weather ends and they disappear once again.
Toby Driver, the royal commission’s aerial investigator, has been busy in the skies across mid and south Wales over the past week studying known sites in the dry conditions, but also discovering lost monuments.
His finds have included a prehistoric or Roman farm near Langstone in Newport…