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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... the Severn banks. He was elected a member of the Cambrian Archaeological Association at the Wrexham meeting, and promised to be a valued and frequent contributor. Multis ille bonis flebilis occidit. J. D. ARVONA ANTIQUA., CAMP ON THE LLANLLECHID HILL. On a spur of the hill behind the village of Cae Llwyn-grydd, and nearly opposite to, and within a stones throw of the Tan y Bwlch mountain gate, stands the camp which is the subject of this paper. It is not marked on the Ordnance map, and in fact it is easily overlooked, unless seen from the ground above. Locally it has no distinctive name, but I perceive that a writer in one of the Welsh newspapers, alluding to these remains, entitles them, " Pen y Gaer neu y Gaer Rudd." This double appellation shows the uncertainty in the writers mind as to the name he should give the camp, and perhaps it would have been better had he left it as he found it, without a name; for coining names for places may, by and by, lead to confusion. I iUiivi iiiilhilnvii: ?-. Wi l/fr.-.-- A w-S SCALE OF. FEET CAMP (IN LliNLLECHID HILL. The camp covers the whole of a small arm of the hill and is separated from the hill behind by a ditch. The sides are artificially raised on the south and west, and for a certain length on the north. The south side is about 6O feet high, is pretty steep, and is covered with stone, some loose and some partly embedded in the soil, and these to all appearance have been thrown down from the wall that at one time protected and sur mounted the whole ridge. The west side is considerably lower than the south side, whilst the north side is about the same height as the south side, and is, like it, for a portion of its length, strewn with stones. A part of this side is protected by a...