Welsh Journals

ARTICLES RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF WALES PUBLISHED MAINLY IN 1966 I. WELSH HISTORY BEFORE 1660. R. W. D. Fenn investigates the historicity of St. Harmon, in Trans. Radnorshire Soc., XXXVI, 50-55. P. A. Wilson examines the literary evidence for the survival of Christianity in Britain after the Saxon invasions, and concludes, from a study of the Irish saints and Celtic particularism, that British Christianity was modified rather than disrupted, ante, III, 5-21, 103-20. N. K. Chadwick examines the early history of Armorica, its colonization from Britain from the fourth century onwards, and the evolution of the Breton political, religious and linguistic tradition, in Proc. British Academy, LI, 235-99. E. G. Bowen uses archaeological evidence to verify some of the historical allusions in early Welsh literature, in Lien Cymru, VIII, 150-67 (in Welsh). Rachel Bromwich discusses Welsh poets and the development of the Welsh poetic tradition during the Dark Ages, in Bulln. Board of Celtic Studies, XXII, 30-37 (in Welsh). David M. Wilson and D. Gillian Hurst give progress reports on archaeo- logical work at Welsh ecclesiastical (especially Burryholms and St. Kynemark's Priory), castle (especially Neath) and manor sites, in Medieval Archaeology, X, 184, 189, 193-96, 208-9, 217. J. M. Lewis reports on excavations (1963) which revealed a Roman auxiliary fort on a site near the later Caerphilly castle, and confirmed that no mediaeval building was erected there before 1268, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, CXV, 67-87. Colin Thomas outlines the historico-geographical development of the township of Nannau from the eleventh to the sixteenth century, in Journ. Merionethshire Historical and Record Soc., V, 97-104. Colin A. Gresham traces the evolution of the borough of Criccieth, out of the early medieval township of Tre Ferthyr, down to the mid-nineteenth century, in Trans. Caernarvonshire Historical Soc., XXVII, 5-36. C. J. Spurgeon provides a comprehensive descriptive inventory of the castle-sites of Montgomeryshire, in The Montgomeryshire Collns., LIX, 1-59. Francis Jones begins a description of the bishop of St. Davids' medieval lordship of Dewsland (Pembs.), and establishes its extent and the origin