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ARTICLES RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF WALES PUBLISHED MAINLY IN 1977 I. WELSH HISTORY BEFORE 1660 D. N. Dumville presents a critical assessment of the sources, person- alties and interpretations of sub-Roman Britain, in History, LXII, 173-92; and, in an examination of the North British section of the Historia Brittonum, sympathises with the anonymous author's difficulties in having to cope with insufficient material, in ante, VIII, 345-54. M. Miller considers the unifying themes which characterise the narrative histories of Gildas, Bede and 'Nennius', in ibid, pp. 456-65; and continues her evaluation of the technique of 'date-guessing' in a further study of early Welsh genealogies, in Studia Celtica, XII/XIII, 33-61. L. Alcock emphasises the limitations as sources of the numerous references to battles in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle in his study of the military encounters of Britons and Saxons in southern Britain, in Bull. Board of Celtic Studies, XXVII, 413-24. Linguistic, anthropological and archaeological evidence relating to the early history of Brittany is examined by Leon Fleuriot and Pierre-Roland Giot, in Antiquity, LI, 106-16. New finds of early Christian monuments in Brecknock, Ceredigion, Llanelli and Caernarvonshire are recorded by J. K. Knight, W. G. Thomas, A. H. Ward, F. Lynch and R. B. White, in Arch. Camb., CXXVI, 60-73. D. Hill challenges some of the accepted theories on Offa's Dyke and Wat's Dyke in Lancashire and Cheshire Antiq. Soc., Trans., LXXIX, 21-33. Hospital provision in Wales and the borderlands from the Dark Ages to the mid-seventeenth century is surveyed by J. Cule, in National Library of Wales Journal, XX, 97-130. D. J. C. King, in his presidential address, surveys the defensive measures adopted by the native rulers of Wales in the period 1067-1283, in Arch. Camb., CXXVI, 1-16. R. A. Griffiths locates three castles in Aberystwyth and discusses the nature and scope of Anglo-Norman and Welsh castle-building enterprises in west Wales, in ibid., pp. 74-87. The foundation of the borough of Welshpool is investigated by R. Morgan, in Montgomeryshire Collections, LXV, 7-24. A. A. Goddu and R. H. Rouse estimate the extent to which the writings of Gerald of Wales were influenced by his familiarity with the Florilegium Angelicum, a twelfth-century collection of extracts from various texts, in Speculum, LII, 488-521 Gerald's dependence on the History of Llanthony for his own chapter on the priory in the Itinerarium Kambriae is evaluated by M. Richter, in Studia Celtica, XII/XIII, 118-32.