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The Chronicle of Geoffrey le Baker of Swinbroke. Baker was a secular clerk from Swinbroke, now Swinbrook, an Oxfordshire village two miles east of Burford. His Chronicle describes the events of the period 1303-1356: Gaveston, Bannockburn, Boroughbridge, the murder of King Edward II, the Scottish Wars, Sluys, Crécy, the Black Death, Winchelsea and Poitiers. To quote Herbert Bruce 'it possesses a vigorous and characteristic style, and its value for particular events between 1303 and 1356 has been recognised by its editor and by subsequent writers'. The book provides remarkable detail about the events it describes. Baker's text has been augmented with hundreds of notes, including extracts from other contemporary chronicles, such as the Annales Londonienses, Annales Paulini, Murimuth, Lanercost, Avesbury, Guisborough and Froissart to enrich the reader's understanding. The translation takes as its source the 'Chronicon Galfridi le Baker de Swynebroke' published in 1889, edited by Edward Maunde Thompson. Available at Amazon in eBook and Paperback.
Gaer Llwyd Burial Chamber is in Gaerllwyd, Monmouthshire, Prehistoric Wales Neolithic Burials.
Book of South Wales. Between four and miles to the north of Caerwent on a hill forming part of a small farm, called Gaer Llwyd, about a mile from Newchurch-in which parish it is situated-is the Cromlech [Gaer Llwyd Burial Chamber [Map]], depicted in the accompanying sketch. The upper stone is twelve feet long and about three feet and a half broad, and the uprights vary from four to five feet. Vestiges of a trench and bank are discoverable round this Cromlech, which is the only one in the county, and has been strangely overlooked by Coxe and other topographers.