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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.
Garnwnda Burial Chamber is in Llanwnda, Pembrokeshire, Prehistoric Wales Neolithic Burials.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1872 Pages 81-143. Overlooking the little church of Llanwnda, near Fishguard, is what some, perhaps, would call a variety of the demi-dolmen [Garnwnda Burial Chamber [Map]]; but which is an ordinary dolmen, the capstone of which has slipped, and now rests in a standing position on only one of its supporters. It measures 14 ft. according to Fenton, and is somewhat of triangular form; not very dissimilar to the "Coetan Arthur [Map]" ~ cromlech near Criccieth (described in the Arch. Camb. of 1869, p. 135) in outline of form, but in its thickness very different from the rude masses such as those of Llech Tribedd and others. It is only 20 inches thick. The supporting stones are also of the same character. This dolmen is in such a dilapidated state that it does not contribute any light to the general subject, except as shewing how much the character of such structures depends on the kind of stone available. But for this fact one might be tempted, from its less massive character, to look upon it as somewhat later than the more massive and rougher monuments. On the lower ground are several upright stones irregularly placed; but it would be dangerous to speculate upon their character, as, with the exception of three or four, their age is very questionable.