ARCHAEOLOGIA CAMBRENSIS Cylchgrawn Cymdeithas Hynafiaethau Cyrmu The Journal of the Cambrian Archaeological Association. VOL. 143 (1994)

Provides an outline of the results of excavations undertaken in 1939 and 1940. Seven trenches were excavated through the ramparts. The sections were difficult to interpret but provided significant information concerning their structure. A scheme of five chronological phases can be proposed. Extensions of excavation into the interior provided important evidence for at least four roundhouses, along with associated surfaces and features. The pits of the so-called Western Complex were also sectioned but no clear evidence of date or function was obtained. A small but significant collection of Iron Age ceramic material, comprising early Iron Age decorated local coarseware jars and Wessex fineware, carinated, furrowed bowls with fragments of salt containers from Cheshire, are identified and discussed. Other finds from the excavation included a ceramic bronze working crucible and a polished stone axe. Includes

Discussion and catalogue of items from the collection of medieval jewellery held in the Department of Archaeology and Numismatics of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales, along with general comments on jewellery and styles of decorative dress accessories worn in the country up to the sixteenth century, with examples from other private and public collections. The material is described in three sub-groups -- brooches, pendants and moulds. Includes

Catalogue and discussion of finds including wooden vessels and other items from the castle well; a wooden knife handle; textile fragments; leather items including shoes from the well; objects of bone or antler; a wide range of glass vessels; window glass; beads; utilised stone including sculptured sandstone heads; decorated floor tiles; architecturally moulded brickwork from the seventeenth-century house; moulded plaster ceiling details; a summary of the pottery evidence; and the environmental evidence including wood and plant remains, charcoal, insect and fish remains, marine mollusca, and human bones. Also includes

Description of the seventeenth-century iconography of the medieval castle, church, mansion and park, including pictorial evidence of a number of structures and features.