sentences:  Before the battle, monks from the monastery had fasted for three days and then climbed a hill to witness the fight and pray for the success of the Welsh; they were massacred on the orders of Æthelfrith.The massacre was recounted in a poem entitled "The Monks of Bangor's March" by Walter Scott.No trace of the monastery remains aa it is likely that all the buildings, were built of wattle and daub.