Welsh Journals

ARTICLES RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF WALES PUBLISHED MAINLY IN 1996 Welsh History Before 1660 D. S. Mcomish and N. A. Smith explain how excavations at Welshbury hillfort have revealed a complex archaeological landscape and a lengthy occupation period stretching into the middle ages, in Trans. Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Soc., 114, 55-63. M. Bell examines coastal change at the important wetland site of Goldcliff, Gwent, in The Monmouthshire Antiquary, 12, 8-14. The excavations within the Roman 'vicus' at Caersws are published by N. W. Jones et al., in Montgomeryshire Collections, 84, 1-36. R. J. Brewer examines critically the excavations undertaken at Caerwent in 1855, in The Monmouthshire Antiquary, 12 15-22. The unique nature of the 'Llangwm Phallic Stone' is explored by A. G. Mein, in The Monmouthshire Antiquary, 12, 23-8. L. Laing catalogues and discusses early medieval, non-Pictish sketches on stone in Britain, in Studia Celtica, 30, 127-46. A. Schlesinger, C. Walls et al. assert that an early church and medieval farmstead site at Uanelen, Gower, enjoyed continued occupancy from the sixth century to the present day, in The Archaeological Journal, 153, 104-47. The nature of the delivery of the early 'Celtic' bards is explored by J. E. Caerwyn Williams, in Scottish Gaelic Studies, 17, 393-402. S. Hirst, P. Rahtz et al. deliver the results of excavations at Liddington Castle that have failed to provide much-sought evidence for the battle of Badon, in The Archaeological Journal, 153, 1-59.