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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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Archaeologia Cambrensis 1869 Page 263-264 is in Archaeologia Cambrensis 1869.
This is mentioned by Rowlands (Mona Antiqua, second edition, p. 93), who describes it as "a pretty cromlech standing at the top of a hillock at Bodowyr." He also gives a drawing of it (plate v, fig. 2), and the following dimensions,— "length, 7 ft.; breadth, 6 ft.; thickness, 6 ft."; and adds,"ye upper stone is a detruncated pyra mid, and flat at the top." The capstone is four-sided: the north-west side,which is the longest, measures 7 ft.; the south-west side, 6 ft.; the south-east side, 6 ft. 3 ins. (exclusive of the corner which is rounded); the north-east side, 4 ft. 6 ins. It has a pyramidal appearance when looked at from the south-west, but is certainly not "very flat at the top." There are five supporters standing; but the capstone at present rests upon three only, which are shaded in the accompanying ground-plan. From the smallest of these a piece has been detached, and now lies beneath the cromlech. The total height above ground is 7 ft. 6 ins. Several fragments of stone, all of which are marked in the ground-plan, are scattered about under and around the structure. Most probably these were originally used to close up the sides of the chamber. Miss A. Llwyd, in her History of Anglesey (4to., 1833, p. 287), describes the capstone as being "supported by four upright stones"; so that, if she observed correctly, one supporter must have given way after she wrote. Rowlands further remarks that "there is also, on a rising part of the ground there" (Bodowyr)," the highway leading through it, the remains of a small cirque" (Mona Antiq., plate v, fig. 3); " and on another part of the ground there appear the marks of a carnedd, the stones of which, in times past, have been disposed of into walls and buildings."
I have been unable to find the remains of either of these.
Note 1. Pennant, p. 229.