Welsh Journals

C. J. Spurgeon presents a discussion paper on medieval moated sites in Wales, in Archaeology in Wales, XVIII, 18-29; he provides, with H. J. Thomas, an interim report on investigations into the medieval remains of Glamorgan, in Morgannwg, XXII, 14-41. Recent archaeological discoveries are recorded by J. and P. Webster (Cardiff Castle), P. Webster (Working Street, Cardiff), R. Caple and P. Webster (The West Manor, Radyr) and by the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust (Cowbridge, Rumney Castle, Cardiff, Margam and the Bridgend area), ibid., pp. 87-93. A further report on excavations at Laughame Castle is presented by R. Avent, in The Carmarthenshire Antiquary, XIV, 21-35. T. James publishes a comprehensive plan, with descriptive notes, of the fishponds, watercourses and other earthworks at the site of Whitland Abbey and Iron Forge, ibid., pp. 71-78. Some aspects of agrarian and economic arrangements in medieval Caerleon engage the attention of E. Kennerley in Gwent Local History, XLV, 13-27. A. D. Carr comments on the importance of medieval fisheries in the rural economy of medieval Anglesey in Cymru a'r Mor: Maritime Wales, III, 5-8; he contributes the first episode of his substantial study of the Mostyns of Mostyn, 1540-1642, in Flintshire Hist. Soc. Journal, XXVIII, 17-37. E. G. Bowen comments on exhibits relating to the history of Aberyst- wyth at the opening of the 'Aberystwyth 700' exhibition at the National Library of Wales, in National Library of Wales Journal, XX, 300-9. Historical data relating to the parishes and incumbents of Llanwrin and Machynlleth are presented by J. D. K. Lloyd, in Montgomeryshire Collections, LXVI, 29-45. C. Gresham investigates the administrative and tenurial history of Nanmor Deudraeth, in Journal Merioneth Hist. and Record Soc., VIII, 97-121. R. B. White locates the medieval hamlet of Bodbenwyn and comments on the adoption of medieval administrative units for taxation purposes in the eighteenth century, in Anglesey Antiquarian Soc. and Field Club, 1977-78, pp. 19-33. A. D. Powell draws attention to a further collection of miscellaneous documents dating from the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries and relating to Radnorshire, in Trans. Radnorshire Soc., XLVIII, 67-74. P. C. Bartrum edits the genealogical tract 'Pedwar larddur' (Peniarth 134 pp. 131-33), in National Library of Wales Journal, XX, 373-76. The provenance and early history of the Red Book of Hergest are examined by P. Morgan, in Morgannwg, XXII, 42-60. C. Lloyd-Morgan transcribes the Peniarth 15 fragment of Y Seint Greal and emphasises the survival of older Arthurian traditions as late as the end of the fifteenth century, in Bull. Board of Celtic Studies, XXVIII, 73-82.