Owen’s Cave

Owain Glyndwr, who died on 20 September 1415, was believed by his own countrymen to have supernatural powers, a reputation Shakespeare made use of in Henry IV. After his defeats in 1405 he hid in remote places, and one of his refuges, a cave in Merionethshire, was still called Ogof Owain or Owen’s Cave in Chambers’s day. An uninscribed tombstone in the churchyard of Monnington on Wye was said to mark his grave.