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Book cover of A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales: Breconshire, Glamorgan, Monmouthshire, Radnorshire, and geographically contiguous areas of Herefordshire and Shropshire

A Corpus of Early Medieval Inscribed Stones and Stone Sculpture in Wales: Breconshire, Glamorgan, Monmouthshire, Radnorshire, and geographically contiguous areas of Herefordshire and Shropshire

by Mark Redknap, J. M. Lewis, Nancy Edwards ยท 2007

ISBN: 0708319564 9780708319567

Category: History / Ancient / General

Page count: 631

Inscribed stones and stone sculpture form the most prolific body of material evidence that survives for early medieval Wales. The inscribed memorial stones in Latin or Old Irish ogam commemmorate the lives the Welsh elite of the time and are crucial to understanding the continutity of early medival Welsh culture with the preceding Roman culture, Irish settlements, and early Welsh kingdoms.