Reflections on the Past, Essays in honour of Frances Lynch

This collection of twenty-five essays is published in honour of FrancesLynch in recognition of the contribution she has made to our understandingand appreciation of the past, and to her long involvement with CambrianArchaeological Association. The essays mostly relate to Wales, Ireland andthe West of England, and embrace a wide range of subjects, many of whichFrances has herself written about. These include Neolithic and Bronze Ageceremonial and funerary monuments and pottery, Bronze Age goldwork andbronzes, Iron Age hillforts and decorative metalwork, burnt mounds, fieldsystems, Roman conquest and settlement, early medieval inscribed stones,and medieval and later churches and chapels.<strong>Reflections</strong> onthe Past<strong>Reflections</strong> on the Past. Essays in honour of Frances Lynch is edited by BillBritnell and Bob Silvester and is published by the Cambrian ArchaeologicalAssociation in July 2012Photograph of Cors y Gedol burial chamber: © Mick Sharp#Softback, 245 × 175mm, viii + 520 pages, with approx. 300 drawings andphotos, some in colour, ISBN 978-0-947846-08-4. Published July 2012I would like to orderand enclose a cheque for................ copies at £20.00 + £5.00 p&p£.............. payable to Cambrian ArchaeologicalAssociationName .................................................................................................Address ...................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................................Postcode .................................................................................................Please send with cheque to: CAA Treasurerc/o 41 Broad StreetWelshpoolSY21 7RRFor enquires please ring: 01938 553670Essays in honour of Frances Lynchpublished in July 2012 by theCambrian Archaeological Association

Contents . . .<strong>Reflections</strong> on the PastEssays in honour of Frances LynchFrances Lynch and the prehistory of Wales and the West. Richard BradleyLiving with the dead. Mick SharpNeolithic pottery fabrics from Newgrange: a petrographic contribution. John Ll. W.Williams and David JenkinsContaining the dead in Irish Passage Tombs. George Eogan, Elizabeth Shee Twohig andKen WilliamsThe Tal-y-llyn plaques and the nocturnal voyage of the sun. John WaddellMontgomeryshire hillforts and enclosures from the air. Chris MussonRoman Anglesey: a survey and recent research. Jeffrey L. DaviesRoman continuity and reinvention: the early medieval inscribed stones of north WalesNancy EdwardsThe Afon Alaw, the sixth-century Ty’n Rhosydd stone and Bivatisus. David LongleyHarlech Castle watergate. Andrew DavidsonThe north side of the churchyard. Bob SilvesterSir Stephen Glynne and ‘The Older Churches of the Four Welsh Dioceses’. LawrenceButlerThe conservation of tranquillity: St Winefride’s Well, Holywell and the old parish churchof Llanfihangel Ysceifiog, Anglesey. Sian E. ReesVictorian red-tape: notes on some ICBS grant applications from churches in the BangorDiocese. Adam VoelckerOnce upon a time in the west: Neolithic enclosures in the Walton basin. William J. Britnelland Nigel W. JonesWhat’s in a name? A critical review of Welsh ‘henges’. Alex GibsonMeini Gwyr: ‘a kind of circular stone-monument’ and its place in the later prehistory ofWales. C. Stephen BriggsTrevisker Pottery: some recent studies. Henrietta QuinnellGoing West: ceremony, barrows and cairns in the south west peninsula. Andy M. JonesWest of Wessex but only just: round barrow construction on the Mendip Hills, Somerse.Jodie Lewis and David MullinPutting capes into context: Mold at the heart of a domain. Stuart NeedhamSouth Welsh socketed axes and other carp’s tongue conundrums. Colin BurgessBurnt mounds in north-west Wales: are these ubiquitous features really so dull?. Jane KenneyPuffins amidst prehistory: re-interpreting the complex landscape of Skomer Island.. Louise Barker, Oliver Davis, Toby Driver and Robert JohnstonCraig Rhiwarth hill-fort, Montgomeryshire. Peter Crew, Graeme Guilbert and David Roe