Archaeologia cambrensis : a record of the antiquities of Wales and its marches, and the journal of the Cambrian Archæological Association. Supplement, 1850

John Williams, William Basil Jones

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• Wales
• Antiquities

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RECOED OP THE ANTIQUITIES
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WALES AND ITS MARCHES,
AND THE JOURNAL OF
l\i (Camhrinii :Hrtli{EDlngirnl Ijsntintinn.
SUPPLE^lENT, 1859.
LONDON
W. PICKERING, 177, PICCADILLY.
TENBY: R. MASON.
1851.-^Cx .PEEFACE.
This Volume, which appears under the auspices of the
Cambrian ARCHiEOLOGicAL Association, contains three
Papers of considerable importance to those engaged in
studying the antiquities of Wales.
The first is an examination of the evidence in favour
of the existence of a Gaelic tribe in North Wales within
the historic period, not as mere invaders, but as settled
has hithertooccupants of the country. The subject
comparatively escaped the notice of Welsh historians and
antiquaries. It is, however, one which, in the hands of
its author, offers a fruitful harvest to the inquirer, suf-
ficiently well read, and endowed with critical acumen
enough, to follow the faint indications of a former race,
whether afforded by local tradition, by a local nomen-
clature, or by general history. The Paper was read, in
substance, Annual Meeting of the Association, atat the
Dolgellau, in August, 1850 the proofs and illustrations;
in the second, third, fourth and fifth sections, the theory
developed in the seventh, and the whole of the last, being
omitted in recitation.
DolgellauThe next Paper was also read at the Meet-
ing, and contains a sketch, rather than a detailed account,
lib [3 i ' i"oVI PREFACE.
of what may be fairly inferred to have been the agricul-
tural and commercial condition of Britain before, during,
and after the Roman sway. It is to be hoped that its
learned author will develope certain parts of his Essay
rather more fully in the pages of the Archceologia
Cambrensis ; and that he will there bring forward the
authorities which he has consulted, with the various
passages on which he grounds opinions, in themselves
highly probable. Few persons have penetrated so deeply
into the more abstruse, and comparatively unknown,
pages of the writers of the Lower Empire, than the
author of this Paper ; and few antiquaries are able to
discuss incidental topics, or to draw forth latent conclu-
sions, with greater skill and more logical acuteness.
The third and last Paper in this Volume, contains a
copious Glossary of Articlesthe ancient names of of
British Dress and Armour, as far as they are met with
in the bardic and diplomatic documents remaining in the
Welsh language. Part of this Paper has already been
printed in the the Archceologia Cambrensis;pages of
but from the interesting nature of the materials amassed
by the author growing under his hand as the work—
useful theproceeded—it has been deemed more to anti-
should published inquarian world that this Glossary be
collective form, as being easier of reference than whena
scattered through various Numbers of the Journal of
the Association. In this case, as in the former, it is much
to be desired that the author may have the leisure to
domestic use,compile a similar glossary for objects of
industrial objects, ofperhaps even of architectural and
manufactured articles, for, doubtless, the study of&c. ;PREFACE. Vll
Welsh antiquities, and the ethnological history of the
nation itself, would be thereby greatly facilitated.
The judicious reader will scarcely fail to observe how,
in these three Papers, a tone of acute and accurate logical
induction—a spirit of scientific archseology prevails, in—
the absence of all that wild and unfounded rhapsodical
speculation in Avhich other writers have been too apt to
indulge. Archaeology is a science inseparable from, if
not identical with, history and it requires to be treated;
with all the learning, all the reasoning, all the argu-
mentative discrimination, which are necessary to any
man before he can presume to attempt anything really
worthy of the historic muse. The antiquities of ^yales
have often sufiered from this absence of extended learn-
ing in the minds of those who have handled them ; for
it should be remembered that no one is competent to
treat of the history, or language, or archaeological con-
dition, of his country, unless he is skilled in all these.
points, as connected with other nations and countries
besides his own. In this point of view, the attention
of the reader is particularly claimed for the contents of
the present Volume.
It may not be out of place to express the further wish,
that the several authors of these Papers will listen to the
following suggestions as to their future labours. A critic,
in one of the weekly organs of public opinion, has already
hinted that the author of the Vestiges, &c., should under-
take a scientific might—we perhaps call it an ethnological
and social—history of Wales. Such a work, notwith-
standing the labours of Carnhuanawc, is still much
wanted and he is quite able to accomplish it.;PREFACE.Vlll
of the State Agriculture, &c., is theThe author of
is competent to write thenow remaining whoonly man
Caernarvonshire perhaps, to complete theofliistory —
His collectionsParockiales of Rowlands.Antiquitates
store of traditionsubjects are great; his ownupon these
considerable andknowledge is much more ;and of local
digested and committedthus possesses beunless what he
with him, whenever heit will entirely perishto writing,
us.to leaveis summoned
engaged inthe third Paper is alreadyauthor ofThe
Myvyriannational service of re-editing theexcellentthe
finished, let him onlyWhen this shall beArchaiology.
lay it aside his country expectshis pen, not ;rest upon
researchthan this, from his patientevenstill more,
her ancienthis calm examination of,andamongst,
records.
published, and may bePapers are alsoThe three
separately.purchased,