ΕΡΙΤΑΡΗ IN MARGAM CHURCH, En Memoriam EVANI RISE. UPON a brass plate placed against a pier in the south aisle of Margam Church are inscribed the following Latin lines, reputed to be from the pen of Dr. Freind: "Vos qui colitis Hubertum Ye, who hold as patron fitting, At vos venatum illo duce Evano Rise Servo fideli Dominus benevolus. P. ob. 1702." Still was he found on sport intent, O, ne'er again shall Evan's horn G. T. C. And say, whose tomb demands more sigh ing ing, Let your trumps sad music borrow; ing, While death our huntsman's mort is blow- Than this where Evan Rice is lying. Still urged the chase, no respite needing, Spoiling at last each hunt'neath Heaven, All ye who kneel at Hubert's shrine, All you, whoever you may be, With visage sad that horn you'll sound, In vain you whoop and holloa, He was the boy, with dog or gun, Unmatched his speed and bottom; His is night's eternal sleeping, To Evan Rice, H. S. D. Still eager when the day was done, C. R. M. т. Mountain or flat to him the same, But you won't hunt with him again, Has taken Evan from us, In life he was a well-known crack. C. R. M. Т. Stark namarch Porth Holyhead Caer Gyli Menn Mountain moelhou Cwme Ancient Wetpons&s found herein 1830 Twr yyy NEW HARBOUR Capet Gorlas Eynnon, holy-well S Salt Island HOLY HEAD Light Ho Pia Cromlech destroyed Probable line of defence A Horizontal Scale 12 Chains to an Inch – Vertical Scale 200 Feet to an Inch. S.E. FLANK OF HOLYHEAD MOUNTAIN, pentas Huts Ty mawr Peny bone necklace Tre Huts + Borth Fort PENPHOS Danish Porth y Penbros Mawr DIHAS Standidge & C. Litho; Nd Jewry E.C. Memmon Plas Porch in 1848 Penryn Owen Trefienath Cromtech 17 Arthu Franon ginarch -Trego Roman coins Ynys Benlas Gorseddyy Acagian Towyn capet Huts GROUP OF ANCIENT HABITATIONS CALLED CYTTIAU'R GWYDDELOD ON THE FARM OF TY MAWR, ON THE ESTATE OF THE HON BLE WILLIAM OWEN STANLEY M.P. ON THE REMAINS OF ANCIENT CIRCULAR HABITATIONS IN HOLYHEAD ISLAND, CALLED CYTTIAU'R GWYDDELOD, AT TY MAWR, ON THE S.W. SIDE OF HOLYHEAD MOUNTAIN. BY THE HON. WILLIAM OWEN STANLEY, M.P. In many parts of Anglesey, but particularly near Holyhead, are to be seen in rough and uncultivated districts of heathy ground, over which the plough has never passed, certain low mounds, which on examination are found to be formed of a circular wall of stones, but are now covered with turf and dwarf gorse or fern. These walls generally enclose a space of from fifteen to twenty feet in diameter, with a doorway or opening always facing the south-east, and having two large upright stones about four or five feet high as door-posts. These sites of ancient habitations are usually in clusters of five or more, but at Ty Mawr on Holyhead Mountain they form a considerable village of more than fifty huts, still to be distinctly traced. These villages are usually placed in positions sheltered by rising ground from the north-west winds, and are generally protected from hostile attack by rude enclosure walls of dry masonry or by precipitous rocks. Such remains of circular habitations have, time out of mind, been called "Cyttiau'r Gwyddelod," or Irishmen's Huts; but, as Rowlands in his Mona Antiqua observes, this is a vulgar error, if by Gwyddelod be meant the inhabitants of Ireland, who never inhabited Anglesey so as to have left any remains of their creals and cottages behind them, seldom staying long in it: but, "if by Gwyddelod be meant the aborigines, the first inhabitants, as it is not unlikely it may, for the two words that make up that name are purely British, viz. Gwydd and Hela, i.e. wood-rangers, which was perhaps the common appellation of the aborigines, lost with us, and retained only by the Irish, then the objection falls to the ground, and the instance confirms |