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Archaeological investigations at Trellech have been led since the early 1990s by the South Wales Centre for Historical and Interdisciplinary Research at the University of Wales, Newport.

There is currently some dispute over the layout and development of the medieval town and its environs.

In 2005, young archaeology graduate Stuart Wilson privately bought a field in which, he was convinced, were remains of the lost medieval town.

His interest in this field and the possibility that his hunch might be correct was the subject of a 30-minute BBC Radio 4 documentary, presented by the archaeologist Francis Pryor, and entitled The Boy Who Bought a Field, broadcast on 6 March 2006.

The programme revealed that Wilson had apparently discovered medieval walls and yard-paving.

According to the Monmouth Archaeological Society, " there is now no room for debate " that the excavations by Wilson and others have now identified the main site of the medieval town to be around the minor road towards Catbrook, to the south of the current village on what is now farmland.

This site was first identified by ( the unrelated ) Julia Wilson in an article in the journal Current Archaeology, " A New Location for an Old Town ".