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The Court passed to Roger's son, Edward Vaughan, but he died without issue, the estate
passing to his sister, Charles' daughter, Margaret of Maes-y-Gwartha. She was married to a Thomas
Morgan.
The Court then passed through a few more generations without any further improvements, either to
the fabric or the fortunes of the residents. The property was sold in 1783 as the Vaughan family decided to
take up occupancy at another of their properties following a marriage and Tretower Court passed out of
Vaughan hands to a series of new tenants and over time some previously residential rooms were adapted
as stores, barns and then even used by animals, part even becoming a piggery. The building was not
maintained to the previous standards and by the early years of the 20th century the building was in danger
of collapse, the roof in particular vulnerable. What maintenance had taken place was piecemeal and
concealed the origin, age and value of the medieval structure. In 1929 the Brecknock Society made a
successful appeal for the government to purchase the building. In the 1930s it was saved and restored for
the nation, and is now in the care of Cadw, The Welsh Historic Monuments Group.

The Court is now open to the public and a guided audio tour is available, inclusive in the nominal
entrance fee. Events and interpretive reenactments are often held at the Court in season.

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A team of historians and researchers announced that Radio Carbon dating evidence, and the
discovery of ancient British style artifacts and inscriptions in the American Midwest, provide the strongest
indications yet" that British explorers, under the Prince Madoc ap
Madoc arrived in the country during the 6th Century and set up colonies there. Research team
members have known the location of burial sites of Medoc’s lose relatives in Wales for some time, it
emerged today; but they have decided to break their self-imposed silence in
order that their research be fully known and understood. DNA evidence could provide vital new
leads, they say. "We have a mass of remarkable evidence," said British historian Alan Wilson, who has
been working with Jim Michael of the Ancient Kentuckian Historical Association since 1989,"As experts in
ancient British history, we were approached by Jim and visited locations in the Mid West with him," he
added. Many of the grave mounds found in the American mid West, including those at Bat Creek,
Tennessee, are ancient British in origin and design, Wilson said. Jim Michael added, "the stone tablet
found at Bat Creek in 1889 included an inscription written in Coelbren, an ancient British alphabet known

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