Archaeologies & Antiquaries: Essays by Dai Morgan Evans

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Archaeologies and Antiquaries collects and republishes 14 key academic works by the late Professor Dai Morgan Evans FSA (1944-2017), whose career spanned the civil service, learned societies, charitable organisations and the academy. His research focused on the archaeology of Wales and England. Spanning early medieval archaeology and history, the management and conservation of ancient monuments, histories of antiquarianism, and the Welsh church of Llangar, the chapters have been reformatted, freshly edited and published together for the first time with new illustrations. Together, the studies provide still-pertinent and insightful investigations, here contextualised by a multi-authored introduction surveying Dai's career and contributions to archaeology and its public understanding. 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) Figure 26. Llansteffan Castle during restoration work (Reproduced with permission: RCAHMW) Figure 27. Pentre Ifan (Reproduced with permission: RCAHMW) Figure 28. Stonehenge (Photograph: Howard Williams) Figure 29. Wigmore Castle from the air (Reproduced with permission of Castle Finders) Figure 31. Octavius Morgan’s diary (Reproduced with permission: Society of Antiquaries of London) Figure 33. Llangar Church from the air (Reproduced with permission: RCAHMW) Figure 34. (a) Llangar church looking along the approach path through the churchyard from the lychgate and (b) Llangar church from the north (Photographs: Howard Williams) Figure 35. (a) Llangar church from the east-north-east and (b) Llangar church from the east-south-east across the churchyard (Photographs: Howard Williams) Figure 36. The roof of Llangar church (Reproduced with permission: RCAHMW) Figure 37. The sundial post and porch of Llangar church (Photograph: Howard Williams) Figure 38. (a) Details of the restored slate roof of the porch and (b) lychgate (Photographs: Howard Williams) Figure 39. The porch of Llangar church (Photograph: Howard Williams) Figure 40. The western drystone wall demarcating Llangar churchyard (Photograph: Howard Williams) Figure 41. The bier in Llangar church (Photograph: Howard Williams) Figure 42. Plan of Llangar church after Yates 1993 (redrawn by Howard Williams) Figure 43. Looking east inside Llangar church (Photograph: Howard Williams) Figure 44. Benches in Llangar church (Photograph: Howard Williams) Dai Morgan Evans: A life in archaeology The origins of Powys – Christian, heretic or pagan? Irish influence in post-Roman mid-Wales An early Christian monument from Llanwyddelan, Montgomeryshire Legacy hunting and Welsh identities ‘King Arthur’ and Cadbury Castle, Somerset Eighteenth-century descriptions of the Cerne Abbas Giant Et in Arcadia? The problem with ruins The Society of Antiquaries, 1707–18: Meeting places and origin stories ‘Banks is the villain!’? Sir Joseph Banks and the governance of the Society of Antiquaries Octavius Morgan: Journal of a tour through North Wales in 1821 Llangar – Church and community in the early eighteenth century Part I: The fabric of the church Part II: The poor, vermin and other matters Part III: christmas, holy communion, ale and the wardens Part IV: Hierarchy, liturgy, fixtures and fittings