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ARTICLES RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF WALES PUBLISHED MAINLY IN 1993 I. WELSH HISTORY BEFORE 1660 G. C. Boon discusses evidence of the Romano-British Church in Gwent, most notably at Caerleon and Caerwent, in Monmouthshire Antiquary, VIII (1992), 11-24. H.C. Mytum and C. J. Webster report on excavations at Berry Hill Camp, Nevem (Dyfed), and note medieval occupation of an earlier site, up to the fourteenth century, in Bull. Board of Celtic Studies, XL, 198-211; and Ewan Campbell and Alan Lane report on excavations (1988-89) at Longbury Bank (Dyfed), an early medieval undefended settlement which may compare with other settlements in south Wales, in Medieval Archaeology, XXXVII, 15-77. N. J. Higham comments on Gildas's report in De Excidio Britanniae of letters sent from the Britons to a Roman leader ('Agitius') on the Continent seeking aid against barbarian raiders, and suggests a date of c. 425/435 which has implications for the date of composition of De Excidio, in Bull. Board of Celtic Studies, XL, 123-34. P. C. Bartrum makes some corrections to his Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts, in Bull. Board of Celtic Studies, XL, 171-72. Donald Moore speculates on the meaning of the place-name Dinefwr/Dynevor, in Carmarthenshire Antiquary, XXIX, 5-11. Eluned Rees surveys the long history of the Welsh book and book publication in Wales from Llyfr Aneirin onwards, in Bull. John Rylands Library, 75, no. 1, 157-69. Patrick Sims-Williams proposes that the Llywarch Hen poems may have been written between the eighth and the mid-tenth century at Llan-gors, in Cambridge Medieval Celtic Studies, 26, 27-63. J. E. C. Williams discusses 'Welsh nationality' in the Middle Ages, in Cof Cenedl, VIII, 1-35 (in Welsh). J. K. Knight sheds important light on the organization of the early Church in Gwent in the 'age of the saints', in Monmouthshire Antiquary, IX, 1-17. A. G. Williams reassesses the Norman penetration of south-east Wales during the reign of William I, in ante, XVI, no. 4, 445-66; and B. Coplestone-Crowe discusses Anglo-Norman Trewalkin, named after its Norman conqueror, Walkelin Visdelou, in Brycheiniog, XXVI, 43-51. R. S. Babcock discusses Gruffydd ap Rhys ap Tewdwr's resistance to the Normans in south-west Wales in 1115-16, and the young 'imbeciles' (ynfydiori) who accompanied him, in Haskins Soc. Journal, 4, 1-9. R. R. Davies considers how the study of English rule in Ireland, Scotland and Wales contributes to an understanding of the nature of the English state, c. 1110-1400, in Journal of Historical Sociology, 6, 1-14. Michael Richter briefly surveys, from surviving inscriptions and manuscripts, the indigenous medieval languages of the Celtic lands, in Medievales, XXV, 53-60 (in French).