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122 PRE-HISTORIC REMAINS IN MONMOUTHSHIRE. ing to the monks of Tintern, but in the manorial records and other documents, called Cil-wyddon. The Gwyddon, or sage, whose retreat this was, may possibly have been the chief Druid, who, here apart from his brethren, passed his life in religious seclusion. The place is mentioned in the Liber Landavensis by the name of " Llan-maenvon in Trillech" and identified by the description of its situation between the brooks Angidy Vawr and Angidy Vychan. In another place it is called " Ecclesia Maenvon id est Villa Gwiton " (Gwyddon). From this name, Maenvon, it is probable there was here another maen-hir, which has been destroyed. A place called Twmp, not far from the church, was possibly its site, although the mound, like the stone, has now disappeared, the name alone being retained. There was another place called Trillech, in the parish of Llantilio Pertholly, near Abergavenny, now written Triley, which, there can be little doubt, took its name from the existence of a similar monument, consisting of three meini-hirion, at some time there; nothing of the sort now remains. As in the former case, a single stone stood about a mile and a half north of the triad; so at this place, about the same distance towards the north, is a place called Stanton, most probably from a similar monu¬ ment, which has disappeared like the others. The cromlech at Gaer Llwyd, in Newehurch, has already been described and figured in an early Number of the Journal; it is the only one now standing in the county; but from the appellation, Gwal y filast, being given to several such monuments in Wales, it may be inferred that there formerly was one at a place so called, in St. Mellon's, of which I believe there are now no remains. Numerous small earthworks, dispersed about the county, from their diminutive size, can hardly be considered as, properly speaking, camps, although very commonly so called. I should rather suppose them to have been the intrenched residences of the ancient chieftains of the district; their names, where they have any, countenance