Archaeologies and Antiquaries : Essays by Dai Morgan Evans / edited by David Morgan Evans [and three others].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Evans, David Morgan, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Archaeology.

England--Antiquities.

England.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (306 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, [2022]

Summary:

This book collects and republishes 14 key academic works by Dai Morgan Evans FSA (1944-2017). Spanning early medieval studies, the management and conservation of ancient monuments, histories of antiquarianism, and the Welsh church of Llangar, the chapters have been freshly edited and published together for the first time with new illustrations.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents Page

Contents

List of Figures and Tables

Figure 1. Two images of Dai aged 4 participating in excavations in Chester.

Figure 2. Top-left, Dai at graduation, 1966; Top-right, at South Cadbury; Bottom-left, Dai with Richard Avent in 1980 (Photographs: shared by Sheena Evans).

Figure 3. Three images of Dai during his time as General Secretary at the Society of Antiquaries of London from 1992–2004. Left: At Kelmscott House, 2001. Top-right: Dai (centre) with Geoff Wainwright (right) and David Breeze (left) at Geoff Wainwright’s

Figure 4. Dai during the 2008 survey at the Pillar of Eliseg with Professor Nancy Edwards (top-right) and during the 2010 field season of Project Eliseg (Photographs: Howard Williams)

Figure 5. Photographs of the Butser Farm Roman villa (Reproduced with permission of Butser Farm)

Figure 6. Photographs of Dai during the ‘Rome Wasn’t Built in a Day’ television programme (top left, lower left and right: Photographs by Howard Williams. Remainders by permission of Dai Morgan Evans’ estate)

Figure 8. The Pillar of Eliseg from the north-west (above) and south-west (below) (Photographs: Howard Williams)

Figure 9. The ‘Garmon mounds’ at (a) Castle Caereinion, (b) Llanarmon Dyffryn Ceiriog and (c) Llanfechain (Reproduced with permission: Photographs by Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust)

Figure 10. The prehistoric barrow and early medieval cemetery at Tandderwen, Denbighshire (After Brassil et al. 1991. Reproduced with permission: Royal Archaeological Institute)

Figure 11. Plan of the Four Crosses barrow cemetery, Powys showing early medieval graves clustering around Barrow 2 (after Harvard et al. 2017, 4. Reproduced with permission: Royal Archaeological Institute and Cotswold Archaeology)

Figure 12. Plan of Barrows 2 and 8 from the Four Crosses barrow cemetery with secondary early medieval inhumation graves and the deposition of iron spearheads (Reproduced with permission: Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust)

Figure 13. Aerial photograph of the excavations of the Trelystan early medieval inhumation cemetery adjacent to an Early Bronze Age funerary monument (Reproduced with permission: Clwyd-Powys Archaeological Trust)

Figure 14. The Llanderfyl stone, (a) photograph and (b) drawing (Reproduced with permission: RCAHMW)

Figure 15. The Silchester ogham stone (Reproduced with permission: Reading Museum and the University of Reading)

Figure 16. (a) The Cunorix stone from Wroxeter (Reproduced with permission: Dr Roger White) and (b) a drawing of the Cunorix stone from Wroxeter (Reproduced with permission of Roger Tomlin and Roman Inscriptions of Britain)

Figure 17. (a) The Llanwyddelan stone (Photograph: Howard Williams) and (b) drawing of the Llanwyddelan stone (Line drawing by Dai Morgan Evans. Reproduced with permission: Society of Antiquaries of London)

Figure 18. The Llandwyddelan stone with circles marking possible cross-graffiti (Photograph: Howard Williams)

Figure 19. The Pillar of Eliseg from the north-east showing the eigtheenth-century inscription by Trevor Lloyd (Photograph: Howard Williams)

Figure 20. South Cadbury (Reproduced with permission: Society of Antiquaries of London)

Figure 21. South Cadbury by William Stukeley (Wikimedia)

Figure 22. Image of post-medieval building on South Cadbury (Reproduced with permission: Society of Antiquaries of London)

Figure 23. Aerial photograph of the Cerne Abbas Giant (Wikimedia)

Figure 24. Drawing of the Cerne Abbas Giant (Reproduced with permission: Society of Antiquaries of London)

Figure 25. The ruins of Valle Crucis Abbey from the north-east across the eighteenth-century ornamental pond and summer house (Photograph: Howard Williams) Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

9781803271590

1803271590

OCLC:

1344541272