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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.
Hanging Stone aka Burton Burial Chamber is in Rosemarket, Pembrokeshire, Prehistoric Wales Neolithic Burials.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1844 Pages 129-144. In the volume for 1872, p. 126, are two views of the Burton Cromlech, Pembrokeshire [Hanging Stone aka Burton Burial Chamber [Map]], which has not been so often noticed as others. In 1864 it was used as a small sheepcot, and had been built round with small stones, since cleared away with advantage. The capstone lies north and south, measuring about 11 feet by 9. The capstone is unusually massive, and as far as one example can illustrate it, settles the question of capstones ever serving as altar-slabs. The two excellent illustrations here given are from drawings by Miss Tombs and her brother, of Burton Bectory.
Archaeologia Cambrensis 1872 Pages 81-143. The first to be described is one [Hanging Stone aka Burton Burial Chamber [Map]] in the parish of Burton, near Haverfordwest, and on the estate of J. H. Scourfield, Esq., M.P. It was inspected when the Society, in 1864, visited the county under the presidency of that gentleman; at which time it was built round with loose stones, and used as a small sheepcot. It has since been cleared out, and is now seen to much better advantage than when visited by the Society. At that time there were some small remains of the original packing of small stones in the interstices between the slabs,—a very unusual occurrence. What was left was but a very small portion, but quite sufficient to give an idea of the firm manner in which this dry rubble-work was worked in. It is too far off to have any direct relation with the singular alignment (described by Sir Gardner Wilkinson in the Archæologia Cambrensis of 1870, p. 120) near Benton Castle, which has, however, at least one ruined dolmen connected with it. The capstone, from north to south, is 10 feet 2 inches by 81 feet, with a thickness of 4 ft. 3 ins.; and from the highest point of the exterior, from the ground, is 9½ ft. The upright stone on the south side is 6 ft. 1 inch; that on the east side is 5 ft. 3 ins.; and that on the north side, 5 ft. 5 ins. Cut No. 2 represents the south side, and is from a drawing by Mr. James Tombs.