William of Worcester's Chronicle of England
William of Worcester, born around 1415, and died around 1482 was secretary to John Fastolf, the renowned soldier of the Hundred Years War, during which time he collected documents, letters, and wrote a record of events. Following their return to England in 1440 William was witness to major events. Twice in his chronicle he uses the first person: 1. when writing about the murder of Thomas, 7th Baron Scales, in 1460, he writes '… and I saw him lying naked in the cemetery near the porch of the church of St. Mary Overie in Southwark …' and 2. describing King Edward IV's entry into London in 1461 he writes '… proclaimed that all the people themselves were to recognize and acknowledge Edward as king. I was present and heard this, and immediately went down with them into the city'. William’s Chronicle is rich in detail. It is the source of much information about the Wars of the Roses, including the term 'Diabolical Marriage' to describe the marriage of Queen Elizabeth Woodville’s brother John’s marriage to Katherine, Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, he aged twenty, she sixty-five or more, and the story about a paper crown being placed in mockery on the severed head of Richard, 3rd Duke of York.
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Caerwent, Monmouthshire is in Monmouthshire South East Wales.
Carbon Date. 460. Late Iron Age Carbon Dates
Report: human bone; excavation outside the east gate of the Roman town of an inhumation cemetery and extra-mural building: also the outer defensive ditch of the Roman town.
ID: 15553, C14 ID: HAR 494 Date BP: 1540 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 1610, End BP: 1470
Abstract: Caerwent [Map]; 1973-74
Reference Name: Jordan, D, Haddon-Reece, D, Bayliss, A 1994 'Radiocarbon dates: from samples funded by English Heritage and dated before 1981', London: English Heritage
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 460. Late Iron Age Carbon Dates
Report: Bone [? not stated in ref] from cemetery at Caerwent [Map] Eastgate, Monmouthshire, Wales.
ID: 7678, C14 ID: HAR-495 Date BP: 1540 +/- 80, Start Date BP: 1460, End BP: 1620
OS Letter: ST, OS East: 470, OS North: 905
Reference Name: Monmouthshire Antiq, 4(3-4), 1981-2, 2-5; Edwards N & Lane A (eds), 'Early medieval settlements in Wales AD 400-1100' (1988), 137
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 540. Early Medieval
Report: human bone; excavation outside the east gate of the Roman town of an inhumation cemetery and extra-mural building: also the outer defensive ditch of the Roman town.
ID: 15556, C14 ID: HAR 497 Date BP: 1460 +/- 80, Start Date BP: 1540, End BP: 1380
Abstract: Caerwent [Map]; 1973-74
Reference Name: Jordan, D, Haddon-Reece, D, Bayliss, A 1994 'Radiocarbon dates: from samples funded by English Heritage and dated before 1981', London: English Heritage
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 590. Early Medieval
Report: Bone [? not stated in ref] from cemetery at Caerwent [Map] Eastgate, Monmouthshire, Wales.
ID: 7680, C14 ID: HAR-494 Date BP: 1410 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 1340, End BP: 1480
OS Letter: ST, OS East: 470, OS North: 905
Archaeologist Name:
Reference Name: Monmouthshire Antiq, 4(3-4), 1981-2, 2-5; Edwards N & Lane A (eds), 'Early medieval settlements in Wales AD 400-1100' (1988), 137
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
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Carbon Date. 590. Early Medieval
Report: human bone; excavation outside the east gate of the Roman town of an inhumation cemetery and extra-mural building: also the outer defensive ditch of the Roman town.
ID: 15554, C14 ID: HAR 495 Date BP: 1410 +/- 80, Start Date BP: 1490, End BP: 1330
Abstract: Caerwent [Map]; 1973-74
Reference Name: Jordan, D, Haddon-Reece, D, Bayliss, A 1994 'Radiocarbon dates: from samples funded by English Heritage and dated before 1981', London: English Heritage
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 600. Early Medieval
Report: Bone [? not stated in ref] from intramural burial at Caerwent [Map], Monmouthshire, Wales. Comment: from burial in road with coin of AD 335-48 and bangle.
ID: 7683, C14 ID: HAR-5110 Date BP: 1400 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 1330, End BP: 1470
OS Letter: ST, OS East: 470, OS North: 905
Reference Name: Edwards N & Lane A (eds), 'Early medieval settlements in Wales AD 400-1100' (1988), 137
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 690. Early Medieval
Report: Bone [? not stated in ref] from intramural burial at Caerwent [Map], Monmouthshire, Wales.
ID: 7684, C14 ID: HAR-5152 Date BP: 1310 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 1240, End BP: 1380
OS Letter: ST, OS East: 470, OS North: 905
Reference Name: Edwards N & Lane A (eds), 'Early medieval settlements in Wales AD 400-1100' (1988), 137
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 750. Early Medieval
Report: Bone [? not stated in ref] from cemetery at Caerwent [Map] Eastgate, Monmouthshire, Wales.
ID: 7681, C14 ID: HAR-496 Date BP: 1250 +/- 80, Start Date BP: 1170, End BP: 1330
OS Letter: ST, OS East: 470, OS North: 905
Reference Name: Monmouthshire Antiq, 4(3-4), 1981-2, 2-5; Edwards N & Lane A (eds), 'Early medieval settlements in Wales AD 400-1100' (1988), 137
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 750. Early Medieval
Report: human bone; excavation outside the east gate of the Roman town of an inhumation cemetery and extra-mural building: also the outer defensive ditch of the Roman town.
ID: 15555, C14 ID: HAR 496 Date BP: 1250 +/- 80, Start Date BP: 1330, End BP: 1170
Abstract: Caerwent [Map]; 1973-74
Reference Name: Jordan, D, Haddon-Reece, D, Bayliss, A 1994 'Radiocarbon dates: from samples funded by English Heritage and dated before 1981', London: English Heritage
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
The History of William Marshal was commissioned by his son shortly after William’s death in 1219 to celebrate the Marshal’s remarkable life; it is an authentic, contemporary voice. The manuscript was discovered in 1861 by French historian Paul Meyer. Meyer published the manuscript in its original Anglo-French in 1891 in two books. This book is a line by line translation of the first of Meyer’s books; lines 1-10152. Book 1 of the History begins in 1139 and ends in 1194. It describes the events of the Anarchy, the role of William’s father John, John’s marriages, William’s childhood, his role as a hostage at the siege of Newbury, his injury and imprisonment in Poitou where he met Eleanor of Aquitaine and his life as a knight errant. It continues with the accusation against him of an improper relationship with Margaret, wife of Henry the Young King, his exile, and return, the death of Henry the Young King, the rebellion of Richard, the future King Richard I, war with France, the death of King Henry II, and the capture of King Richard, and the rebellion of John, the future King John. It ends with the release of King Richard and the death of John Marshal.
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Carbon Date. 910. Early Medieval
Report: human bone; excavation outside the east gate of the Roman town of an inhumation cemetery and extra-mural building: also the outer defensive ditch of the Roman town.
ID: 15552, C14 ID: HAR 493 Date BP: 1090 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 1160, End BP: 1020
Abstract: Caerwent [Map]; 1973-74
Reference Name: Jordan, D, Haddon-Reece, D, Bayliss, A 1994 'Radiocarbon dates: from samples funded by English Heritage and dated before 1981', London: English Heritage
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Carbon Date. 910. Early Medieval
Report: Bone [? not stated in ref] from cemetery at Caerwent [Map] Eastgate, Monmouthshire, Wales.
ID: 7682, C14 ID: HAR-493 Date BP: 1090 +/- 70, Start Date BP: 1020, End BP: 1160
OS Letter: ST, OS East: 470, OS North: 905
Reference Name: Monmouthshire Antiq, 4(3-4), 1981-2, 2-5; Edwards N & Lane A (eds), 'Early medieval settlements in Wales AD 400-1100' (1988), 137
Council for British Archaeology (2012) Archaeological Site Index to Radiocarbon Dates from Great Britain and Ireland [data-set]. York: Archaeology Data Service [distributor] https://doi.org/10.5284/1017767
Archaeologia Volume 64 1913 Section XI. Excavations at Caerwent, Monmouthshire [Map], on the Site of the Romano-British City of Venta Silurum, in the years 1911 and 1912. By Alfred E. Hudd, Esq. F.S.A. Read 29th May, 1913.