This Regional Guide contains some account of the monuments in the Region in charge of the Commisioners, but it does not profess to describe their history and structure in detail - this is the province of the published guides to the more important monuments, and of the plans and notes available at others.

Preface to first edition (Feb. 1938).

A reprint of this Guide having been called for, the opportunity has been taken to include twelve monuments, placed in charge of the Ministry of Works since 1938.

Note to second edition (Jan. 1949).

In this further re-issue of the Guide, occasion has been taken to include eight monuments placed in the care of the Ministry of Works since 1949.

Note to third edition (Jan. 1954).

Giving the chronological sequence, relative length, and approximate dates (in South Wales) of culture phases from the Neolithic onwards: with references to the monuments.

Chronological table.

The character and distribution of the antiquities of the Region (the southern half of the Principality of Wales) included in the present Guide are difficult to appreciate without some grasp of the geographical structure of the country, much of which is mountainous and thinly populated.

The geographical background.