PREHISTORIC AND ROMAN WALES. By R. E. M. Wheeler. (Clarendon
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:THE learned Director of the Welsh National Museum has pro- 'duced a most interesting and valuable survey of all that is known about Wales from the Stone Age to the end of the Roman occupation. He deals clearly with the successive periods, of the cave-man, the Neolithic, the much discussed Megalith-builders, the so-called " Beaker-folk," the Age of Bronze and the Early Iron Age, and concludes with the best short account of Roman Wales that we have yet seen. The author's shrewd and temperate comments on the megalithic theories of Professor Elliot Smith and Mr. W. J. Perry deserve special mention ; in regard to Wales, at least, those theories must be reconsidered. The descriptions of the great Roman military station of Isca (Caerleon) and of the neighbouring Roman town of Caerwent are particularly attractive. It seems probable_ that Caerwent long survived the departure of the Romans, because of its remote situation..
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