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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1969 Page 17 is in Archaeologia Cambrensis 1969.
Bryn Celli Ddu [Map], Anglesey. A Reinterpretation By Claire O'Kelly.
This study presents a reinterpretation of the monument at Bryn Celli Ddu [Map] in Anglesey, Wales, excavated in the latter part of the nineteen-twenties by the late W. J. Hemp. A fresh look at his findings in the light of the work being carried out at present at Newgrange, Co. Meath-a site with which Bryn Celli Ddu [Map] is often compared-and also in view of the observations made on the Welsh monument as long ago as 1951 by M. J. O'Kelly, suggests strongly that a two-period site, consisting of a henge and a passage-grave, is in question rather than the one-period site postulated by Hemp.