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Ymddengys i bobl ddefnyddio'r safle yn barhaus tan ddiwedd y ddegfed neu ddechrau'r unfed ganrif ar ddeg (sef cyfnod Hywel Dda, a fu farw yn 950, a Gruffudd ap Cynan, a fu farw ym 1137). Mae'n ymddangos bod y safle ar ei anterth yn y ddegfed ganrif, a cheir tystiolaeth ar gyfer cynaeafu cnydau, cadw da byw, presenoldeb crefftwyr, a chysylltiadau â masnachwyr 'Sgandinafaidd'.
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"The 1997 excavation has pushed back the date of the enclosed settlement to the sixth century, possibly earlier, with internal ditches and timber structures - i.e. to the time of king Cadfan (Catamanus Rex, king of Gwynedd, commemorated on an inscribed stone from Llangadwaladr, who died 625). It appears to have been operating continuously until the late tenth or early eleventh century (the times of Hywel Dda, who died in 950, and Gruffudd ap Cynan, who died 1137), and to have been at its peak in the tenth century, when there is evidence for the harvesting of crops, the keeping of livestock, the presence of artisans and craftsmen, and contact with 'Scandinavian' merchants. The 7th-century bird-headed brooch is paralleled by Saxon brooches from Yorkshire (Sewerby, and Uncleby), and reminds us of contact at this time between Anglesey and Northumbria: the overkingship of Northumbrian king Edwin of the Westerners, recorded in the Tribal Hidage, and Bede's record of Edwin's supremacy over the Britons, particularly Anglesey and Man. Cadwallon was responsible for the death of Edwin in 633, who by later tradition had been fostered by Cadwallon's father Cadfan. In 634 Cadwallon killed Osric, became ruler of Deira (around York) and controlled Northumbria for a year.
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