Welsh Journals

the windmill at Llancayo, just north of Usk, had apparently been working in 1813 as it is shown with its sails. The Greenwoods must have noticed this as on their map they specifically state "Windmill. Ruins" so we now have a date bracket for that otherwise unrecorded oddity. Windmill enthusiasts please note. The second bonus I got within minutes of receiving my copy was the fact that the previously undated brickmaking industry at Camp Wood, Gwehelog was working in 1830. To my relief there was no sign of the Gwehelog pottery kilns so that the end date for them of about 1780, suggested by our current excavations at nearby Trostrey, was not upset. The third bonus was the whereabouts of the previously unidentified place "Cross Hands" on the Turnpike out of Usk to the north east. If I can get as much as this out of this map in minutes then others may be just as fortunate in their areas. Mention of the surveyors of the Ordnance Survey brings me to the third recent publication of local interest. This is a collection of essays by some of his old extra mural students and by some of his professional colleagues in honour of Prof. George Jobey, the doyen of pre-Roman and Romano- British settlement studies in the north of England and in lowland Scotland. Having been one of his diggers for 20 years in those remote nothern hills my wife only managed to notch up ten years before we moved south I felt in honour bound to pay the extortionate price of £ 25 for this excellent book. I suggest that many of you could with profit try to persuade the County Librarian to buy one as it contains at least three articles of interest in Wales. The book is "Between and beyond the Walls" i.e. Hadrian's and Antonine's, edited by Miket and Burgess and published in 1984 by John Donald Ltd., Edinburgh. The particular essay I have in mind is that on the outstanding surveyor and archaeologist Henry MacLaughlan (1792-1882), he who first mapped Hadrian's Wall and most of the sites we had dug. Probably unknown in this part of the world he has become something of a cult hero in the north for the beauty and accuracy of his field sketches and his unerring eye for "antiquities" of any sort. The interest for Monmouthshire is that before he went north he had been engaged in surveying and drawing for the then new 6" maps for his employers the Ordnance Survey and one of his many drawings of parts of the County, duly dated and signed, is one of Caerleon and the lower part of the Usk Valley. It is dated November and December 1826 and appears as Plate 2 in this book. Typical of MacLaughlan's beautiful cartography it was prepared, perhaps with the help of his colleague Robert Dawson, during their two year stay in the County. He had worked on the survey of Gloucestershire in 1825 and after completing the Cardiff and Caerphilly sheet moved in 1828 to the Hereford and the Forest of Dean areas where he stayed until 1833. A large number of his original sketches are still to be found in the British Museum Map Room and are listed in Map Room Index B.4a.l5. In addition to MacLaughlan's interest in archaeology, and he recorded many sites not previously recognised, he was an outstanding geologist being elected a Fellow of the Geological Society in 1832. His work in the Mynyddisllwyn area and the Forest contributed substantially to the