Welsh Journals

POWYSIANA (Being references to books or articles published elsewhere which relate to the history and archaeology of Powysland.) The Tanat Valley; Its Railways and Industrial Archaeology by W. J. Wren (David and Charles, 42/-) describes in great detail this vanished industrial scene. The same publishers have produced The Cambrian Railways Vol. II 1889-1968 (42/-). Early Cambrian and other railway timetables can be found in their reprint of Bradshaws Railway Guide for 1887 (63/-). Archaeology in Wales No. 6 (1966) reported crop marks near Castle Caereinion, further work at Hen Domen and Montgomery Castle and completion of the work on the Clywedog barrow. Archaeologia Cambrensis Vols. CXV and CXVI (1966 and 1967) included Masonry Castles in Wales and the Marches, by A. H. A. Hogg and D. J. C. King, and An incident at Montgomery Castle on New Year's Day 1288, by A. J. Taylor. In Industrial Archaeology Vol. 2 (1965) J. Geraint Jenkins wrote on Newtown and the Woollen Industry, and in Vol. 5 (1968) David Bick described Cornish Engine Houses at Welsh Metal Mines, including Van and Pen y Clun. The Guilsfield Hoard is reconsidered by D. Gareth Davies in The Antiquaries Journal vol. XLVII (1967). (See also Miss L. F. Chitty in Arch. Camb. Vol. CXIV (1965) and Dr. H. N. Savory in Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies Vol. XXI pt. 2 (1965)) Lead Mining in Wales by W.J. Lewis (University of Wales Press, 1967) includes chapters on eighteenth and nineteenth century in Cardiganshire and west Montgomeryshire. Isotope Studies of Ancient Lead, by R. H. Brill and J. M. Wampler in The American Journal of Archaeology (Jan. 1967) deals, inter alia, with samples of galena ore taken from the mine workings at Dylife, Mont. In The Agrarian History of England and Wales Vol. IV 1500-1640 (Cambridge University Press 1967), Peter Smith's chapter on Rural Housing in Wales contains much material from Montgomeryshire. A study of the work of the Hymn-writer, Ann Griffiths of Llanfihangel, by Saunders Lewis, was published in Trans. Hon. Soc. Cymmrodorion (1965), and another paper by J. R. Jones in Lien Cymru Vol. VIII (1964).