Presumably it depends on how you define forgery - much of the early Welsh material in eg the Book of Llan Daf is copied from generation to generation but careful historical detective work can identify an authentic core. And to what extent is a copy from memory in a chartulary of a document which has been lost a forgery? Maddy Dr Madeleine Gray, in the foothills of God's golden county of Gwent (Department of Humanities and Science UWCN Caerleon Campus PO Box 179 Newport NP18 3YG Tel: +44 (0)1633.432675 http://humanities.newport.ac.uk/history.html) 'Reading is sometimes an ingenious device for avoiding thought'