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The Chronicle of Walter of Guisborough, a canon regular of the Augustinian Guisborough Priory, Yorkshire, formerly known as The Chronicle of Walter of Hemingburgh, describes the period from 1066 to 1346. Before 1274 the Chronicle is based on other works. Thereafter, the Chronicle is original, and a remarkable source for the events of the time. This book provides a translation of the Chronicle from that date. The Latin source for our translation is the 1849 work edited by Hans Claude Hamilton. Hamilton, in his preface, says: "In the present work we behold perhaps one of the finest samples of our early chronicles, both as regards the value of the events recorded, and the correctness with which they are detailed; Nor will the pleasing style of composition be lightly passed over by those capable of seeing reflected from it the tokens of a vigorous and cultivated mind, and a favourable specimen of the learning and taste of the age in which it was framed." Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Devil's Quoit Burial Chamber is in Rhoscrowther, Pembrokeshire, Prehistoric Wales Neolithic Burials.
Devil's Quoit Burial Chamber [Map]A capstone, 3.7m by 2.4m and 0.5m thick, supported on the E by two upright orthostats 1.3m high, resting on a prostrate orthostat on the W. There is presently no trace of a mound, but a large, circular "agger" was noted in c.1810.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1872 Pages 81-143. Newton Burrows [Devil's Quoit Burial Chamber [Map]] dolmen has been already given in the Arch. Camb.; but the representation here given is rather more faithful. The support at one end has given way, leaving the capstone in its reclining position. It is over 12 ft. long, and one of the upright stones measures 4 ft. 2 ins. Fenton describes it as having a slight trench round it, as is so frequently the case with the tumuli on the Wiltshire downs.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1931 Volume 81 Pages 1-35. South-west of Rhoscrowther village the peninsula is little more than one mile in breadth, and from the ridge hereabouts a fine view is obtained; on the one side the open sea, on the other the beautiful estuary of Milford Haven. From the wide sandy beach of Freshwater West, 200 ft. below, the south-westerly gales have driven masses of sand on to the very crest of the ridge; the area thus enveloped is known as Kilpaison Burrows (Fig. 1). The plateau was probably free from these accumulations in prehistoric times. The Devil's Quoit [Map], a well-known dolmen (Fig. 2), is on the margin of the sand-covered area, and deep within it, 420 yards south-east of the dolmen, is the Bronze Age barrow now to be described1.
Note 1. See Pemb. 6-in. 0.8. Sheet XXXIX S.W. The Devil's Quoit is marked on this map.
