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Welsh Cruck Barns: Stryd Lydan and Hendre-wen
Apart from the farmhouse itself, the barn was the most important building in the rural landscape of Wales. This handbook discusses the role of barns in the farmstead, their use, and how they were built.
Caring for Historic Monuments on the Farm - Gofalu am Henebion ar y Fferm
Illustrated guidance on the care of historic monuments in Welsh farmland and how agricultural practices can operate alongside the conservation of megaliths neolithic tombs, earthworks, medieval mottes and old industrial sites.
Hidden Grosmont
A comprehensive guide on the history of Grosmont from its prehistory through the evolution of its medieval landscape and, of course, its castle whose ruin still dominates the village. Illustrated with archive photographs, maps and site plans. Bibliography. Paperback.
Gwent Industrial Heritage
This richly illustrated book provides an insight into the important industrial history of Gwent providing the visitor with a guide to relics from a bygone age, many of which have been preserved as part of our heritage such as furnaces, ironworks, quarries, collieries, canal wharfs, tramroads, rai
Iron Working in Merioneth from Prehistory to the 18th Century
A guide to iron working on the site of Bryn-y-Castell hillfort, the C14th furnaces at Llwyn Du, and the C18th blast furnace at Dolgun illustrated throughout with colour and b&w photographs and excavation site plans. Paperback. 32 pages. In very good clean condition.
An Interim Guide to Dryslwn Castle and its Excavation
Report of 1995 excavations on the ruined hilltop Carmarthenshire castle dating from the C13th and used as a defensive fortification by Rhys ap Gruffydd against his Anglo-Norman adversaries. Includes site plans, small finds drawings and four b&w plates. Paperback. 16 pages.
Bridges of Breconshire
A history of bridge construction along the River Usk and its tributaries as the Welsh hinterland opened up during road construction in the C18th and C19th. Many bridges past and present are described with examples illustrated in b&w photographs. Paperback. 70 pages.
Capel Garmon Chambered Long Cairn, Denbighshire
A ten page leaflet describing this impressive Neolithic burial chamber in the hills above Betws-y-Coed and, with others in the Conwy Valey, any possible relationship with the better-known Cotswold-Severn group of monuments. Includes a site plan and map. Good clean condition.
Sooty Bands from Tents to Turfs: Woodcolliers and Charcoal-burning in Wales
A history of widespread small-scale charcoal production across the forests of Monmouthshire with detailed descriptions of the techniques used and the demands made on woodland to fuel medieval iron smelting until the inktroduction of coke in the C18th and C19th led to its decline.
Manorbier Castle
The history, the structure and the current state of this large Norman motte-and-bailey castle near Tenby built in C11th and still substantially intact. The text is accompanied by three b&w plates and many diagrams including a large fold-out site plan. Paperback. 36 pages.