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Book SynopsisArchaeologies 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.
Table of ContentsDai Morgan Evans: A life in archaeology –
Howard Williams, Chris Musson, Christopher Young, Rosemary Cramp, Adrian James and Sheena Evans ;
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
