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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.
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.