Kate Waddington.
The Settlements of Northwest Wales: from the late Bronz Age to the early Medieval period.
University of Wales Press. 2013
This volume examines long-term processes of social change and settlement practices
in later prehistoric and early medieval Wales.
As a case-study, it examines the settlement archaeology of northwest Wales
encompassing the counties of Gwynedd, Anglesey and west Conwy,
and covering a period of two millennia from the Late Bronze Age
to the end of the early medieval period (1150 BC–AD 1050}.
The shifting dynamics underlying society are examined throughout this period
in the introductory chapters via an exploration of settlement and hillfort architectures,
the distribution patterns of site-types, and the histories of particular places,
with comparisons drawn from the evidence in other regions of Britain and Ireland.
The introductory chapters are followed by a detailed gazetteer,
which summarizes the fieldwork results from the settlements.
Some of the data comes from the grey literatures,
making much unpublished information available for the first time.