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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.
The Nantgarw Pottery and its Products: An Examination of the Site
A history of the short-lived Glamorgan pottery and producer of the finest soft-paste porcelain in the early years of the C19th followed by reports on surveys and excavations carried out in 1931 under the auspices of the National Museum of Wales to establish the layout and extent of the pottery bu
Guide to the Collection Illustrating the Prehistory of Wales
Extremely thorough guide to the museum's collection of prehistoric artefacts - flints, pottery, Bronze and Iron Age weaponry. Hardback. 254 pages. Illustrated throughout with many excellent line drawings.
Caernarvon - Segontium
A guide to the archaeology of the Roman legionary fort of Segontium situated at the far extremity of the Roman empire overlooking the Menai Straits. Describes the small finds and reconstructs the building layout. Includes a bibliography and a fold-out plan of the fort.
Discovered in Time: Treasures from Early Wales
An album of seventy prehistoric and historic objects from the museum's collection, each illustrated in a full page colour photograph with accompanying description ranging from a Neanderthal's stone hand axe to the Medieval Oxwich brooch and including the Maesmor Neolithic mace head, the Iron Age
Guide to the Collections of Welsh Bygones: A Descriptive Account of Old-Fashioned Life in Wales Together with a Catalogue of the Objects Exhibited
An eighty page descriptive account of Welsh domestic life in past times followed by a very extensive catalogue of tools and utensils ranging from kitchenalia, through farm implements, equipment associated with wood-turning, pottery, brewing, coopering, tanning and smithying, spinning wheels, cora
Caernarvon - Segontium
Museum guide to the well preserved foundations of the large roman fort of Segontium in North-West Wales and the many weapons, coins, brooches and pottery recovered during excavations on the site. Booklet. 18 pages plus large fold-out site plan. Very good clean condition.&n
Air-Photography and Archaeology
Handbook to a temporary exhibition held at the Museum in 1938 that describes in detail sixty-eight aerial photographs of a very wide variety of archaeological sites , many taken by pioneer OGS Crawford. 35 pages. Booklet. Good condition. Cat No 1384