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The weight of tliis antiquity is forty-two pounds ; 

 the diameter of the upper part eleven inches ; the 

 thickness in the middle two and three quarters." 



We now return to Dyganwy,^ which city, as the 

 towns of the Britons were not built in the substan- 

 tial and regular method of the Romans, must have 

 covered the flat between Dyganwy hill, Bryn 

 Maelgwn, and Bod Caswallon, the residence of 

 Caswallon Law-hir; it was principally built of 

 wood, with which this part of Wales abounded ; 

 and the Welsh always eager to decide the contest 

 with their enemies in the open field, paid no great 

 attention to the science of fortification ; but the 

 numbers and encroachments of the Saxons obliged 

 our kings to put their towns in a more proper state 

 of defence; accordingly, early in the sixth centu- 

 ry, Maelgwn Gwynedd, who had his Lli/sat Bryn 

 euryri, fortified Dyganwy, and built here a strong- 

 castle. After the death of his father Caswallon, 

 he held his court here, and in some records he is 

 called king of Dyganwy.'* Among the occurrences 

 of his reign we find that lillphin, the son of Gwydd 

 no Garanhir, who had been invited by his uncle 



•* Dy gan wy, from the white waves breaking- on flic sliore. 

 •» Willis' St. Asapii, by Edwards, Vol. If. d. 



