The first volume of the series was published in 2004.
Volume 1 contains fourteen chapters as follows:
- The Palaeolithic S. H. R. Aldhouse-Green
- The Mesolithic: The Final Hunter-Gatherer-Fisher Societies of South-eastern Wales Elizabeth A. Walker
- The Neolithic: The First Farming Societies Rick Peterson and Joshua Pollard
- The Bronze Age M. A. Hamilton
- Late Bronze Age Societies (1150 – 600 BC): Tools and Weapons Adam Gwilt
- The Iron Age: Settlement and Material Culture Ray Howell and Joshua Pollard
- The Iron Age: Art, Ritual and Society Miranda Aldhouse-Green
- The Romans: Conquest and the Army W. H. Manning
- The Romans in Gwent Richard J. Brewer
- From the Fifth to the Seventh Century Ray Howell
- Society and Religion in the Early Middle Ages Jeremy Knight
- Statue and Lordship in the Early Middle Ages David Longley
- Caerleon Restaurata: The Narrative World of Early Medieval Gwent Juliette Wood
- The Coming of the Normans Michael Davies
