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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.
Carreg Sampson aka Longhouse Burial Chamber is in Abercastle, Pembrokeshire, Prehistoric Wales Neolithic Burials.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1872 Pages 81-143. The Longhouse cromlech [Carreg Sampson aka Longhouse Burial Chamber [Map]] is the finest of those in this part of the country, and, perhaps, one of the finest in all Wales. It is somewhat masked by the hedge and bank against which it stands, and which have not been introduced in the drawing. In Fenton's time the capstone rested on four of the uprights: at present it rests on three. The six uprights, however, mentioned by him still remain. He also states the length of the capstone to be from 16 to 18 ft.; but its maximum length, according to Sir Gardner Wilkinson, is 15 ft. It 1s nearly 9 ft. across in the broadest part; the highest supporter being 5 ft. 8 ins. long, and the lowest 4 ft. 7ins. It stands in an elevated position, within sight of the sea. All traces of its former covering have disappeared, as the land on which it stands has been for a long time cultivated.