Carmarthenshire & Beyond

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Supplied by Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society.

Carmarthenshire & Beyond:

Studies in History and Archaeology in Memory of Terry James. Edited by Heather James and Patricia Moore.

Volume of essays in memory of Terry James, all represent new work, specially researched and written, copiously illustrated in colour and black and white.

The late Terry James FSA (1948-2007) was a Carmarthen boy, born and bred. He first trained as a letterpress printer, but began his lifelong interest in history by gaining a scholarship to Ruskin College, Oxford. Returning to Carmarthen in 1974, he was recruited to the newly formed Dyfed Archaeological Trust, beginning a long career in many different aspects of archaeology – excavation, topographical survey, air photography and computer applications and many more. He was later appointed to the Royal Commission on Ancient and Historical Monuments, Wales and developed its Information Technology structures and practices. His many interests – industrial archaeology, Carmarthen’s archaeology and topography, place-names, maritime history and archaeology, air photography – are all reflected in his numerous publications in the Carmarthenshire Antiquary and other journals. A life-long member of the Carmarthenshire Antiquarian Society, serving as honorary photographer, council member, chairman and Vice-President, it was decided that the best tribute the Society could pay was to publish this volume of essays by friends and colleagues on many of the subjects he was interested in.

Contents:-

1. Erasmus and the Scholar –Printers – Gwyn Walters
2. Papermaking in west Wales – Terry Wells
3. Carmarthen Printing and Ancillary Trades, 1720-1820 – Eiluned Rees
4. Early Travellers and their Printed Images of the Tywi Valley – Jill & Conrad Davies
5. Artists’ Depiction of Carmarthen Quay – Ann Dorsett
6. Christopher Williams and Carmarthenshire – Dylan Rees
7. John Francis Lloyd … A Carmarthen Photographer – Chris Delaney
8. JF Jones’s Slides and Photographs of Carmarthenshire Country Houses – Thomas Lloyd
9. Nantymwyn, A Carmarthenshire Klondike – Tina Carr & Annemarie Sch�
10. The Present and Future of Aerial Archaeology in Carmarthenshire – Toby Driver
11. The Joys of Enclosures: Aspects of Aerial Reconnaissance in Devon and Somerset – Frances Griffith
12. A Romano-British Cremation at Allt-y-Cnap Road, Carmarthen – John Purdue, Dee Williams & Ros Coard
13. Some Preliminary Observations on Sir John Gardner Wilkinson’s Survey of the Ogofau Gold Mines, Dolaucothi, of 1868 – C Stephen Briggs
14. St Peter’s and the Men of Old Carmarthen – William Strange
15. Pentowyn, Llanstephan – A Pre-conquest Possession of Llanteulyddog (Carmarthen Priory) – Heather James
16. The Advowson of Abernant Church – J Beverley Smith

17. From Chapel to Cloister (A study in continuity and change over seven centuries) – J Wyn Evans
18. ‘A Plot within the Close of the College Church’: Abergwili Bishop’s Palace and College Revisited – Neil Ludlow
19. The Topography of Mediaeval Cardigan – Seamus Cunnane
20. Place-names in Early Printed Maps of Carmarthenshire – D Huw Owen
21. Sir John Perrot’s Deer Park at Cyffig – Ken Murphy
22. The Trenches at Falkland, Fife: a Legacy of Royal Deer-management? – Simon Taylor
23. At the Margins: the Dynamics of Post-Mediaeval Land-use and Settlement around the Farm of Sarn Faen in the Twrch Valley, Carmarthenshire – Muriel Bowen-Evans & Anthony Ward
24. Dinas, Cwm Doeth Reflections on a Deserted Upland Farmstead – Richard Suggett
25. Toponymy and Land-use in the Uplands of the DoethValley (Cardiganshire) – Iwan Wmffre
26. The Pothouse: A Carmarthen Waterfront Building – Terrence James
27. A Further Study of the Pothouse and its Surroundings – Edna Dale-Jones

ISBN 978-0-906972-05-2. 334pp.

£19.95