Glamorgan Medieval Non-defensive Secular Monuments

Glamorgan
Medieval Non-defensive Secular Monuments
Jacket: Gatehouse to the Grange of Abbot's Llantwit, Llantwit Major

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Glamorgan Medieval Non-defensive Secular Monuments
Volume III: Medieval Secular Monuments Part II: Non-defensive
Published 1982.

A complete inventory of the varied non-ecclesiastical and non-military remains of Glamorgan, prepared by the Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Wales. The range of material in Glamorgan offers a unique opportunity to explore an eventful period in history, In all, over 500 monuments are described under ten separate sections: platform houses, long-huts and homesteads, moated sites, medieval houses, deserted and shrunken villages, monastic granges, field systems, rabbit warrens and pillow mounds, roads and miscellanea. As well as a general introduction to the medieval history of the county, each section has its own intoduction detailing the morphology and history of each particular type of monument. The book's many illustrations are accompanied by exhaustive commentary and description.


Contents

• Map of Ecclesiastical Parishes
• List of Plates
• List of Figures
• Chairman's Preface
• Report, with List of Monuments selected by the Commissioners as especially worthy of preservation
• List of Commissioners and Staff
• List of Ecclesiastical Parishes, with incidence of Monuments
• List of Civil Parishes, with incidence of Monuments
• Abbreviated Titles and References
• Presentation of Material
• Historical Introduction
• Maps and List of Non-Celtic Place-names in Glamorgan
• Inventory. Part II: Non-defensive
•     Section PH: Platform Houses: Introduction
•     Section PH: Platform Houses: Inventory
•     Section PH: Platform Houses: Rejected Sites
•     Section LH: Long-Huts and Homesteads: Introduction
•     Section LH: Long-Huts and Homesteads: Inventory
•     Section LH: Long-Huts and Homesteads: Rejected Sites
•     Section LH: Appendix: Tarren Sites
•     Section MS: Moated Sites: Introduction
•     Section MS: Moated Sites: Inventory
•     Section MH: Medieval Houses: Introductions and Inventory
•     Section MH: Medieval Houses: Appendix: Miscellaneous Domestic Remains
•     Section DV: Deserted and Shrunken Villages: Introduction
•     Section DV: Deserted and Shrunken Villages: Inventory
•     Section DV: Deserted and Shrunken Villages: Vanished Sites
•     Section MG: Monastic Granges: Introduction
•     Section MG: Monastic Granges: Inventory
•     Section FS: Field Systems: Introduction
•     Section FS: Field Systems: Inventory
•     Section PM: Rabbit Warrens and Pillow Mounds: Introduction
•     Section PM: Rabbit Warrens and Pillow Mounds: Annotated List of Recorded Rabbit Warrens
•     Section PM: Rabbit Warrens and Pillow Mounds: Inventory of Pillow Mounds
•     Section RO: Roads: Introduction
•     Section Ro: Roads: Inventory
•     Section MI: Miscellanea: Introduction
•     Section MI: Miscellanea: Inventory
•     Section MI: Miscellanea: Rejected Sites
• Glossary
• Index
• Plates
• Map of Civil Parishes

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