Welsh Journals

ARTICLES RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF WALES PUBLISHED MAINLY IN 1988 I. WELSH HISTORY BEFORE 1660 G. Williams discusses the light which recent excavations throw on settlement in Dyfed from the later prehistoric to post-Roman periods, in The Antiquaries Journal, LXVIII (I), 30-54. S. Esmonde Cleary assesses the place of Magnus Maximus (d. 388) in medieval Welsh legend and his significance for the end of Roman Britain, in History Today, XXXVIII (December 1988), 35-40. The completion of excavations at the Early Christian cemetery site at Atlantic Trading Estate, Barry, is reported, in Medieval Archaeology, XXXII, 311. The documentary and archaeological evidence for the pre-Norman church in Gwent is assessed by D. Brook, in The Monmouthshire Antiquary, V (3) (1985-88), 67-84. Analysis of a previously unstudied group of animal bones from Dinas Powys is argued by R. Gilchrist to reveal livestock specialisation and the local exchange of animals, indicating that the settlement was not simply a consumer site for long- distance trade in the fifth to seventh centuries, in Medieval Archaeology, XXXII, 50-62. A. Lane and E. Campbell report the results of excavations at Longbury Bank (Pembs.), argued to be a high-status settlement of the fifth to seventh centuries, in Archaeology in Wales, XXVIII, 22-24. They also report the results of survey work undertaken on the crannog in Llangorse lake (Brecs.), postulating a late ninth- or early tenth-century date for the crannog's construction, ibid., pp. 67-68. In a discussion of the early evidence for administrative boundaries in Glamorgan, P. Jenkins argues that there were five regions in the territory from probably the sixth century onwards, in Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, XV, 31-50. D. Allen publishes a note on excavations on Offa's Dyke at Knighton, in Trans. Radnorshire Soc, LVIII, 7-10; and the progress of excavations and surveying on Offa's Dyke by D. Hill is reported, in Medieval Archaeology, XXXII, 309-10. Excavations at Carew castle, including the discovery of a substantial pre-Norman promontory fort, are reported, ibid., p. 310 (see also S. Gerrard in Archaeology in Wales, XXVIII, 74-75). In a report on excavations at Cwrt Llechrhyd near Builth Wells, C. R. Musson and C. J. Spurgeon argue the site to have been a defended enclosure of the ninth to tenth centuries, in Medieval Archaeology, XXXII, 97-109. G. Gabb reviews the evidence for the place-name Swansea, and suggests that the possibility that it indicates Scandinavian settlement should be accepted, in Gower, XXXIX, 6-17. G. Goetinck interprets the episode in the Life of Cadog describing the saint's transportation to, and death in, Benevento as an attempt to persuade Lanfranc or