Early Christian Period. "The Removal of the Cross of Illtyd at Llantwit Major, Glamorganshire." By G. E. Halliday. "Pre-Norman Cross-base at Llangefelach, Glamorganshire." By J. R. Allen. Medieval Period. "The Wogans of Boulston." By F. Green. "Architectural History of the Cathedral Church of St. Deiniol, Bangor." By Harold Hughes. Adventures of a Denbighshire Gentlemen of the Seventeenth Century in the East Indies." By A. N. Palmer. "A Survey of the Lordship of Haverford in 1577." By H. Owen. Montgomeryshire Screens and Rood-Lofts." By D. R. Thomas. "The Hermitage of Theodoric, and the Site of Pendar." By T. Gray. "The Golden Grove Book of Pedigrees." By E. Owen. "A History of the Old Parish of Gresford in the Counties of Denbigh and Flint. By A. N. Palmer. "Forgotten Sanctuaries." Bv G. E. F. Morgan. 66 Llangurig Church, Montgomeryshire." By D. R. Thomas. The following books have been received for review. "Old Pembroke Families." By H. Owen. 46 "The Antiquities of Radnorshire.' By Mrs. Dawson. (Llandrindod Wells, 66 Standard" Office.) Cardiff Records," vol. iv. By J. H. Matthews. "History of the Iron, Steel, and Tin-plate Trades." By C. Wilkins. "History of the Country Townships of the Old Parish of Wrexham." By A. N. Palmer. "The Roman Fort of Gellygaer." By J. Ward. (London, Bemrose and Sons.) "The Life and Work of Bishop Davies and William Salesbury." By Archdeacon Thomas. The thanks of the Association are due to Dr. G. Norman, Mr. T. M. Franklen, and Mr. G. E. Halliday, for the use of photographs published in the Journal; to Mr. Harold Hughes, for drawings supplied gratuitously; and to the Rev. Canon Rupert Morris, for compiling the Index to the volume of the Journal for 1902. Obituary. It is with feelings of profound regret your Committee have to record the demise of two of our old and most-valued members and contributors, in the persons of His Honour Judge Wynne Ffoulkes, a Vice-President of our Association, and the Rev. Chancellor D. Silvan Evans, also a Vice-President, editor of Archeologia Cambrensis, 1871-1875, and a member of the editorial sub-committee. Election of Officers and New Members.-The Committee propose that Sir John Williams, Bart., and W. R. M. Wynne, Esq., of Peniarth, be made Vice-Presidents. The retiring members of Committee are: Illtyd Nichol, Esq., F.S.A. H. Harold Hughes, Esq., A.R.I.B. A. and your Committee recommend their re-election. They also propose for election as members of Committee : Professor Lloyd, Bangor. :- Professor Anwyl, Aberystwith. and as local secretaries : T. E. Morris, Esq., for Carnarvonshire. Your Committee propose that the following gentlemen be elected as auditors : A. Foulkes Roberts, Esq. The Rev. J. Fisher. The following is the list of members who have joined the Association since the issue of the last Report, and now await the formal confirmation of their election : - ENGLAND AND NORTH WALES. Proposed by J. H. Lloyd, Esq., 2, Cooper Street, Manchester. T. E. Morris, Esq. E. Alfred Jones, Esq., Hampden House, Phoenix Street, London L. J. Prichard, Esq., Chiswick, London W. Llewelyn Williams, Esq., Lamb's Building, D. Griffith Davies, Esq., Bethesda Rev. W. E. Scott Hall. Joshua Hughes, Esq. A. Foulkes Roberts, Esq. Archdeacon Thomas Rev. D. H. Davies. H. Harold Hughes, Esq. Canon Rupert Morris. Rev. D. Jones. Evans, Rev. G. Eyre, Tanybryn, Aberystwith Bishop, His Honour, Judge, Dolgarreg, Llandovery Camber-Williams, Rev. Canon R., M.A., Parade, Poole-Hughes, Rev. W. W., M.A., The College, Williams, Rev. R., M.A., Vicarage, Llandilo Evans, Rev. A. F., M. A., Vicarage, Neath Radnorshire: Day, Rev. E. Hermitage, M. A., Abbey Cwm Hir Harold Hughes, Esq. Mrs. Johnes. W. Spurrell, Esq. Rev. C. Chidlow. L. J. Roberts, Esq. Rev. C. Chidlow. Geo. Griffiths, Esq. Rev. Preb. Garnons-Williams. General Business.-Several matters had been brought before the chairman of committee in the course of the year which required immediate attention. 1. Owing to the large number of local subscribers of a guinea at Brecon, the January and April parts of the Journal had run short, and in order to supply the deficiency he had telegraphed to the publisher to print an extra fifty copies. This had been approved at the Shrewsbury meeting, and it comes before the members with that sanction. 2. A letter had been forwarded to him relating to the restoration of St. Mary's, Haverfordwest; the reply to this he had deferred to the Annual Meeting. 3. The excavation of Tre'r Ceiri by Mr. Baring Gould and Mr. Burnard, approved of by the spring committee meeting, had necessi tated the payment of a suggested grant; before the Annual Meeting this had been paid by the chairman, partly from the funds of the Association and partly from those of the Tre'r Ceiri Fund. 4. A grant towards the excavation of Clegyr Foia, promised some two years ago to Mr. Baring Gould, having remained unpaid owing to the death of the late Treasurer, had been also paid by the chairman; and he asked for confirmation and repayment. 5. The Mostyn MS. 158, a Welsh history of Wales, by Ellis Griffith, in the Mostyn Hall Library, being thought by him a matter suitable for publication by the Association, the chairman had approached Lord Mostyn on the subject, and rough estimates of the cost of transcription and printing had been prepared by a small sub-committee appointed at Shrewsbury; but the committee had not yet been able to draw up any definite scheme, and placed the matter before the Association in the rough way that alone was then possible. 6. The committee recommend that the Editor's salary shall in future be £50 per annum, and that an honorarium of £5 per annum be paid to the general secretary for South Wales. The committee recommends that a sum of £30 shall be voted towards the Tre'r Ceiri Excavation Fund. Place of Annual Meeting for 1904.-The committee suggests that Cardigan shall be chosen for the place of meeting for next year. The adoption of the Report was proposed, seconded, and carried unanimously. FRIDAY, AUGUST 21ST, 1903. PUBLIC MEETING. The Evening Meeting, which was very largely attended, was held in the Board Schoolroom, in Snowdon Street, 8.30 P.M. The Ven. Archdeacon Thomas presided, and the attendance included Mr. Lloyd George, M.P. The closest attention was paid to a masterly paper by Professor Lloyd, and to the joint report of the Rev. S. Baring Gould and Mr. Robert Burnard on the recent excavations of Tre'r Ceiri. Professor Lloyd's paper on "Mediæval Eifionydd" came first. Mr. Edward Owen, in the discussion which followed the Paper on Tre'r Ceiri, said, while accepting all the facts-the "finds"-that had resulted from the exploration, he disagreed with Mr. Baring Gould and Mr. Burnard in the deductions they had drawn. It seemed to him that because some fragments of Roman pottery were found in some of the cyttiau, they wanted to infer that the fortress was erected in Roman times. He did not think that that conclusion was necessarily the correct one. The conclusion would have been strengthened had nothing but Roman pottery been found there, and it would have been difficult to refute it in a reasonable way. But there were other finds, of an'earlier age--stone weapons, for instance. It might be argued, however, that those weapons were used by a later people, and that it did not necessarily follow that the earlier people erected the fortress. That was true in itself. But they had to remember that, if they had to regard Tre'r Ceiri as post-Roman, or at any rate as having been erected in the time of the Romans, they had to get rid of this formidable argument that it was impossible for them to imagine such a people as the Romans permitting the construction of such a fortress at Tre'r Ceiri. The walls were such that they could be easily seized. It was not to be regarded as probable, therefore, that the Romans, who were a military people, would build such a fortress. Then, again, there were a number of fortresses similar to Tre'r Ceiri scattered about the country, notably in Scotland, and it had never been suggested that there was anything Roman about them. In fact, they had been ascribed to an earlier date, so that if the construction of Tre'r Ceiri was to be brought into the Christian era, he did not see how they could possibly adhere to the opinion that the other fortress belonged to an earlier period. Concluding, Mr. Owen quoted from the presidential address of Principal Rhys to the Anthropological Section of the British Association at Southport, in 1900, the following" Guided by the kinship of the name of the Tuatha De Danann on the Irish side of the sea, and that of the sons of Don on this side, I may mention that the Mabinogion placed the sons of Don on the sea of North Wales in what is now Carnarvonshire. In that district we have at least three great prehistoric sites, all on the coast. First comes the great stronghold on the top of Penmaenmawr; then we have the huge mound of Dinas Dinlle, eaten into at present by the sea south-west of the western mouth of the Menai Straits; and, lastly, there is the extensive fortification of Tre'r Ceiri, overlooking Dinlle from the heights of the Eifl. By its position Tre'r Ceiri belongs to the sons of Don, and by its name it seems to me to belong to the Picts, which comes, I believe, to the same thing." Mr. Burnard, replying, said it was exceedingly gratifying to them, especially to himself, that Mr. Owen did not question their facts. That was, Mr. Owen quite believed they found the objects they said they found on Tre'r Ceiri. For that crumb of comfort, he was exceedingly obliged. Mr. Owen, however, read the writing of those "finds" in a somewhat different light. He must admit that he had made some mistakes in his time, especially in matters connected with archæology, but neither Mr. Baring Gould nor himself claimed infallibility. It seemed to him, however, that the writing was very distinct though not distinct enough perhaps, for them to be able to fix the erection of Tre'r Ceiri to a century. They, unfortunately, found no iron-nothing with a date on it; but if they looked at the |