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gMMtofltojgta: €mktmh. FIFTH SERIES.—VOL. Ill, NO. XI. JULY 1886. CAERPHILLY. Few castles have received as much attention, or have been so fully and ably described, as the castle of Caer¬ philly. Those of our members who possess the entire series, may well refer back to the volume of Archceo- logia Cambrensis for 1850, and peruse the exhaustive description of the castle and its details, which has recently been incorporated by Mr. Clark in his work on mediaeval military architecture; but others, and many of those who visited the castle last year, may still expect in these later days a renewal of the story in the current pages of our Journal. So an endeavour will be made in the account which follows, to give a general description of the castle, its position and defences, with the aid of the old plan and wood engravings, and to tell what is known of its history, making a free use of Mr. Clark's materials, but avoiding a repetition of his detailed account of the buildings. Although Cardiff and the coast-line had been long wrested from Wales by Norman invaders and their successors, much of the land of Morganwg was still debateable land, and liable to continual claims of the princes of Wales as their own by right, and to conse¬ quent invasions, until the death of Llewelyn ap Griffith, and the conquest of Wales by King Edward. The com mots of Senghenydd, nominally under the rule of 5th see., vol. hi. 11