… GOWER TWENTY ONE…
… GOWER TWENTY ONE…
… Contents THE GOWER SOCIETY IN 1970 G. A. V. Morgan 2 MAP MAKING IN GOWER David Rees 3 Dillwyn's ETRUSCAN WARE Elis Jenkins 8…
… Contents THE GOWER SOCIETY IN 1970 G. A. V. Morgan 2 MAP MAKING IN GOWER David Rees 3 Dillwyn's ETRUSCAN WARE Elis Jenkins 8 THE STORY OF THE MUMBLES HORSE'S HEAD.. M. Bowden 19 THE GEOLOGICAL HISTORY OF THE BRISTOL Channel T. R. Owen 21 MR. Kilvert, WALK SOFTLY R. L. Brown 26 OBITUARY—PROFESSOR CHARLES GITTINS 32 CURRENT MARINE RESEARCH AROUND Gower W. R. Parker 33 THE CAVES OF GOWER Bernard Morris and Harold…
… GOWER Volume 21 1970 The Journal of the Gower Society…
… GOWER Volume 21 1970 The Journal of the Gower Society…
… The Gower Society in 1970 by G. A. V. MORGAN, Chairman, The Gower Society THE BASIC ISSUES CONFRONTING THE GOWER SOCIETY remain the same…
… The Gower Society in 1970 by G. A. V. MORGAN, Chairman, The Gower Society THE BASIC ISSUES CONFRONTING THE GOWER SOCIETY remain the same over the years, even if the form of the problem changes. We are lucky that, to the present, Gower has remained relatively unspoilt; constant vigilance is needed to ensure that it continues to be an area of outstanding natural beauty. Currently, we have been very concerned at the development of…
… replaced in part by suitable sites for touring caravans, if they have to be sited in Gower. In accordance with the thinking of the…
… replaced in part by suitable sites for touring caravans, if they have to be sited in Gower. In accordance with the thinking of the White Paper on "Leisure in the Countryside" and subsequent legislation, it urges that suitable touring caravan sites and holiday amenities should be developed in areas just outside Gower. It urges that all caravan parks should be brought up to the standard recommended by the Caravan Club and that any concentration…
… Trigonometrical Survey published by these two officers in 1811. The original survey was thus begun during the wars with France; the military inspiration seems…
… Trigonometrical Survey published by these two officers in 1811. The original survey was thus begun during the wars with France; the military inspiration seems obvious enough when we recall the abortive French landing near Strumble Head Pembrokshire, in 1797, which involved a feint by the invaders' ships towards the Gower coast. With the survey underway, some of the basic triangulation to establish the 'great triangles' of the area was carried out from key trigonometrical…
… helped by local surveyors. Then, after 1820, Colby decided that a systematic revision was necessary before publication, and this was made by assistant surveyors.…
… helped by local surveyors. Then, after 1820, Colby decided that a systematic revision was necessary before publication, and this was made by assistant surveyors. Careful attention was paid to detail, including place names, and local gentry were consulted in this process. In his most interesting 'publication history' of the Swansea sheet with this new David & Charles edition, Dr. J. B. Harley quotes Lewis Weston Dillwyn writing to Colby in 1823 questioning the spelling…
… stable until quite recently. Nevertheless, when we compare Colby's map and today's edition we can see some interesting differences. The road net- work then…
… stable until quite recently. Nevertheless, when we compare Colby's map and today's edition we can see some interesting differences. The road net- work then and now is rather different, and we can note further changes with the disappearance of some of the earlier settlements of rural Gower. Thus while the skeleton outlines of today's North and South roads from Swansea to Llangennith, Port Eynon and Rhosili are shown quite clearly on Colby's map, the…
… Two other routes which link distant parts of Gower seem worth mentioning here. From the ford across the Burry at Fairy Hill, for example,…
… Two other routes which link distant parts of Gower seem worth mentioning here. From the ford across the Burry at Fairy Hill, for example, a man on foot or horseback could pass north of Reynoldston across Cefn Bryn before dropping to the ancient way which runs past Walterston and Long Oaks. Here the path would take him quickly to Penmaen, and so down to the stepping stones across the Pennard Pill, linking with the…
… gwern Common. The track, still navigable, then runs past Tircoch to Gelli- groes. From here the traveller from English to Welsh Gower could quickly…
… gwern Common. The track, still navigable, then runs past Tircoch to Gelli- groes. From here the traveller from English to Welsh Gower could quickly pass to Llanmorlais through Penllwyn Robert or carry on to Crwys, or Three Crosses. In any case, a combination of part or whole of these paths provided for many years a relatively easy way linking the ends of rural Gower. Today, a very different road network lies superimposed on this…
… Italo-Greek red-figure pelike with, on one side, a scene depicting Dionysus with a thyrsus confronting a Maenad holding a box in one hand and…
… Italo-Greek red-figure pelike with, on one side, a scene depicting Dionysus with a thyrsus confronting a Maenad holding a box in one hand and a mirror in the other alongside one of the larger Pelikae-from Dillwyn's "Etruscan" series (author's collection). the classical urns, graceful vases and garden ornaments known as "Dillwyn's Etruscan Ware", probably from the black scrolled transfer- mark which was placed on the underside of about half of them. Some- times the…
… classical shapes and motifs; indeed, by mid-century, so many factories were turning them out that they appeared in profusion on the stands of the…
… classical shapes and motifs; indeed, by mid-century, so many factories were turning them out that they appeared in profusion on the stands of the china manufacturers at the Great Exhibition of 1851, where one London china-decorator, Edward Battain, even set up a cave filled with imitation antique vases, the whole intended as a representation of an Etruscan tomb. This interest in ancient pottery had been stimulated as far back as 1723-4 by the posthumous…