People of the Black Mountains, a work in two volumes by Raymond Williams, begins in the Old Stone Age and extends through to Medieval times. It takes the form of a series of short stories about ordinary people in the small Welsh-border region where he was born and grew up. It includes the defeat of a Roman force and also Harold Godwinson riding through, having briefly chased out the Normans during the reign of Edward the Confessor. It would have extended to modern times had he lived to finish it. But what is there is complete.

It is solidly based on what archaeologists have found - some of the tales are speculative reconstuctions based on real burials. It also always concentrated on the lives of ordinary people, those who produced the food that the warriors ate. King Arthur is seen as Artorius, a warlord who defeated the Saxons but is mostly a burden to poor people. Everything is very readable and suitable for ordinary novel readers who might find archaeological books too hard to read.