Patrick Sims-Williams is Professor of Celtic Studies at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. He is the author of ‘Religion and Literature in Western England, 600-800’ (1990) and ‘Britain and Early Christian Europe’ (1995). He is also the co-editor of ‘Ptolemy: Towards a Linguistic Atlas of the Earliest Celtic Place-Names of Europe’ (2000), and the editor of Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies.

"[Sims-Williams's] concern is to give due weight to all the possibilities rather than to rush into one attractive interpretation. This will make the book extremely valuable as a restraining influence on the rasher tendencies of other scholars. The Celtic Inscriptions of Britain is a major achievement in Celtic historical linguistics and will be an indispensible work of reference for many years to come." Antiquity "(Celtic Inscriptions of Britain) represents an invaluable contribution to its field."Cumbrian Medieval Celtic Studies

• List of Tables and Figures ixPreface xi1 Introduction 12 Brittonic Phonology (1-98) 213 Brittonic Chronology 2384 Irish Phonology (1-43) 2965 Irish Chronology 3226 Conclusion and List of Proposed Dates 351AppendicesAbbreviations and Bibliography 396Index of Forms Discussed 421Index of Other Forms Mentioned 439