Book Description
A travel book along the Welsh Borders. Over the centuries, many have yearned for an eastern coastline to Wales, presuming it would make guarding the culture of Wales and controlling its fate much easier.
Author : MYRDDIN AP. DAFYDD
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 10,59 MB
Release : 2019-03
Category :
ISBN : 9781845276843
A travel book along the Welsh Borders. Over the centuries, many have yearned for an eastern coastline to Wales, presuming it would make guarding the culture of Wales and controlling its fate much easier.
Author : Charles George Harper
Publisher :
Page : 394 pages
File Size : 50,12 MB
Release : 1894
Category : Wales
ISBN :
Author : Ben Giles
Publisher : Pocket Mountains S.
Page : 95 pages
File Size : 34,15 MB
Release : 2012-06
Category : Walking
ISBN : 9781907025181
The tranquil borderland of the Marches, offers a varied landscape truncated by rivers meandering to lowland plains. Limestone to the west and north of the old red sandstone of the Hereford Plain has given rise to exceptionally attractive hilly country with delightful, narrow valleys. In these 40 walks Ben Giles explores all the best places to vist in this wonderful area of the country.
Author : Roy Millward
Publisher : MacMillan Publishing Company
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 32,61 MB
Release : 1971
Category : Travel
ISBN :
Author : Max Lieberman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 43,87 MB
Release : 2010-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 1139486896
This book examines the making of the March of Wales and the crucial role its lords played in the politics of medieval Britain between the Norman conquest of England of 1066 and the English conquest of Wales in 1283. Max Lieberman argues that the Welsh borders of Shropshire, which were first, from c.1165, referred to as Marchia Wallie, provide a paradigm for the creation of the March. He reassesses the role of William the Conqueror's tenurial settlement in the making of the March and sheds new light on the ways in which seigneurial administrations worked in a cross-cultural context. Finally, he explains why, from c.1300, the March of Wales included the conquest territories in south Wales as well as the highly autonomous border lordships. This book makes a significant and original contribution to frontier studies, investigating both the creation and the changing perception of a medieval borderland.
Author : Richard Dobson
Publisher : Grosvenor House Publishing
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 22,95 MB
Release : 2020-05-05
Category : Travel
ISBN : 1839751118
When Richard Dobson toured the border county of Herefordshire in 2005, following in the footsteps of Victorian artist Henry Thornhill Timmins, he recorded the experience in his subsequent book In My Own Time. Join him in his latest tour as he describes, in their words, what earlier writers discovered as they travelled through the Welsh Marches, even before the word 'tourism' was first used.
Author : Shelagh Norton
Publisher : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,42 MB
Release : 2021-10-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789698642
This volume assesses marsh-forts as a separate phenomenon within Iron Age society through an understanding of their landscape context and palaeoenvironmental development. These substantial monuments appear to have been deliberately constructed to control areas of marginal wetland and may have played an important role in the ritual landscape.
Author : Charles George Harper
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 1994
Category :
ISBN :
Author : John Roland Phillips
Publisher : London, Longmans, Green, & Company
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 1874
Category : Great Britain
ISBN :
Author : Jane Kenney
Publisher : Oxbow Books
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 40,71 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1789256925
Holy Island is a small island just off the west coast of Anglesey, North Wales, which is rich in archaeology of all periods. Between 2006 and 2010, archaeological excavations in advance of a major Welsh Government development site, Parc Cybi, enabled extensive study of the islands past. Over 20 hectares were investigated, revealing a busy and complex archaeological landscape, which could be seen evolving from the Mesolithic period through to the present day. Major sites discovered include an Early Neolithic timber hall aligned on an adjacent chambered tomb and an Iron Age settlement, the development of which is traced by extensive dating and Bayesian analysis. A Bronze Age ceremonial complex, along with the Neolithic tomb, defined the cultural landscape for subsequent periods. A long cist cemetery of a type common on Anglesey proved, uncommonly, to be late Roman in date, while elusive Early Medieval settlement was indicated by corn dryers. This wealth of new information has revolutionised our understanding of how people have lived in, and transformed, the landscape of Holy Island. Many of the sites are also significant in a broader Welsh context and inform the understanding of similar sites across Britain and Ireland.