Welsh Journals

ARTICLES RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF WALES PUBLISHED MAINLY IN 1967 I. WELSH HISTORY BEFORE 1660 Leslie Alcock offers a wide-ranging archaeological appraisal of the interaction of Pagan Saxon society on Romano-British civilization in the fourth and fifth centuries A.D., ante, III, no. 3, 229-49. C. B. Crampton analyses, with maps and photographs, the settlement pattern of small fields and tiny enclosures in the Brecknock uplands, datable to the fifth and sixth centuries A.D., in Archaeologia Cambrensis, CXVI, 57-70. Dorothy Sylvester, taking Glasbury and Norton as examples, studies and illustrates with maps the origin of nucleated settlements and field systems in east Radnorshire, stressing their comparability with the nearby English plain, in Trans. Radnorshire Soc., XXXVII, 17-26. R. W. D. Fenn begins a survey of early Christianity in Radnorshire, concentrating on the Age of the Saints, in ibid., 7-16. Gwynfryn Richards examines the identity of the ancient Welsh saint, Rhedyw, to whom Llanllynfi church (Caerns.) is dedicated, in Trans. Caernarvonshire Hist. Soc., XXVIII, 5-12. P. C. Bartrum contributes some corrections and additions to his pedigrees of Welsh tribal patriarchs (The National Library of Wales Journal, XIII, 93-146), ibid., XV, 157-66. J. W. James unearths an Irish reference to the death of Gruffydd ap Llywelyn in 1063, in Bull. Board of Celtic Studies, XXII, part 2, 168-69. A. H. A. Hogg and D. J. C. King present a valuable list and index of masonry castles in Wales and the marches built between 1066 and the mid-sixteenth century, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, CXVL, 71-132. E. J. Talbot claims to identify two hitherto unidentified (and still undated) 'castle' sites at Twyn-y-Garth (Llandeilo-Graban) and Glasbury, in Trans. Radnorshire Soc., XXXVII, 66-68. F. G. Cowley contributes a note on a hitherto unrecorded castle at Llangenydd (Glam.) to Archaeologia Cambrensis, CXVI, 204-6. G. Vernon Price explains how the hillforts of Marford and Wrexham contributed to the defence of north Wales against the Normans in the twelfth century, in Trans. Denbighshire Hist. Soc., XVI, 10-22. Dafydd Jenkins takes a lawyer's look (in lawyer's language) at old Welsh land law, thereby reinforcing criticism of the view of early Welsh society as a 'free pastoral people organized on semi-nomadic lines', in Trans. Cymmrodorion Soc., part 2, 220-48.