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Welsh Hist Rev 4 (3)
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Welsh Hist Rev 4 (3)
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Welsh History Review
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4 (3)
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Year of Publication:
1967
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Date Of Issue From: 1967
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BIAB (British Archaeological Abstracts (BAA))
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05 Dec 2008
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Edward Lhwyd: antiquary and archaeologist
Glyn E Daniel
345 - 359
Lhwyd's career has been badly neglected. He was brought up in the 17th cent, when Geoffrey of Monmouth's mythological view of the past had only newly been dispelled. He was a friend and contemporary of John Aubrey, whose views on the Druids he respected but rarely shared; in his general thinking he was more advanced than Aubrey. For his part in the 1695 revision of Camden's Britannia he insisted on examining monuments in the field, he and Aubrey being pioneers in this. He recognised "elfshot" for the arrowheads they were, making useful comparisons with N American Indian artefacts; and foreshadowed the notion of cultural diffusion, comparing British prehistoric tombs with Scandinavian examples. At New Grange he gave the first clear use of the stratigraphic principle when he saw that a Roman coin in the mound ruled out a Danish or Saxon origin for the monument. His talents, which included draughtsmanship, make him the first great Welsh archaeologist.