Welsh Journals

ARTICLES RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF WALES PUBLISHED MAINLY IN 1997 Welsh History before 1660 D. Hopewell reports on the survey and excavation of a Roman fortlet at Brithdir, in Journal of the Merioneth Hist. and Rec. Soc., XII, 3 10-33. W. H. Manning discusses the strategic importance of the legionary fortress at Usk and uses the results of years of archaeological investigation to show how a picture of the site has been gradually built up, in The Monmouthshire Antiquary, XII, 37-42. As part of his search for Deiniol's sixth-century monastic community, D. Longley reports on the results of six excavation sites located in and around Bangor (1981-9), in Archaeologia Cambrensis, CXLIV, 52-70. F. Gale provides an interim report on the Clwydian Range Upland Archaeological Survey which aims (i) to produce a comprehensive list of the condition of known historical and archaeological sites and monuments, and (ii) to identify new sites and monuments, in Denbighshire Hist. Soc. Trans., XLVI, 5-25. G. O. Pierce reviews the reasons behind the scheme for a national Welsh place-name register, in Archaeologia Cambrensis, CXLIV, 26-36. M. Walker, M. Lawler and M. Locock use pollen evidence from Cefn Hirgoed to trace the extent of woodland clearance in medieval Glamorgan, in Archaeology in Wales, XXXVII, 21-6. M. Haycock investigates Taliesin's questions in Llyfr Taliesin — a compendium of Taliesin's poetry-assessing its nature and the possible sources which helped determine the 148 questions posed by the poet, in Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, XXXIII, 19-79. D. Kennedy attempts to resolve the identity of the supposed cleric Cadwaladr, who is thought to be closely associated with the medieval village of Magor, in Gwent Local History, LXXXII, 3-9.