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COYGAN CAMP: A PREHISTORIC, ROMANO-BRITISH AND DARK AGE SETTLEMENT IN CARMARTHENSHIRE. By G. J. Wainwright. Cambrian Archaeological Association, Cardiff, 1967. Pp. xii, 213, 10 pis., 49 figs. 70s. (hard cover) or 60s. (paper). Available from the Association, National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. This important and useful report strikes the reader with all the force and charm of a waterlogged meringue. The reason is simple: inadequate illustrations. The half-tones range from mediocre to execrable, and the plans and sections are insensitively drawn and drastically over-reduced. The metric scales are of dubious reliability and should not be used. Fig. 1 has received insufficient thought, and consequently fails to illustrate the accompanying text for a reader unfamiliar with the detailed geography of the area. By contrast, the artefacts discovered at Coygan are beautifully drawn and fully described, though there is no apparatus to enable the reader to work from drawing to description. But let the reader not be deterred by first impressions. Coygan Camp represents an important contribution to our knowledge and understanding of the archaeology of Wales, and especially the neglected south-west. The site is a promontory fort in south Carmarthenshire, and was excavated by Dr. Wainwright for the Ministry of Public Building and Works in 1963-65. He is to be congratulated on this prompt and full publication of his results. The site was settled in the Mesolithic and Neolithic periods, fortified in the pre-Roman Iron Age, re-occupied in the late third century A.D. by a counterfeiter of Roman coins, and abandoned early in the fourth century. A brief re-occupation followed in the fifth or sixth century. The principal structural evidence is from phases 4 (the Iron Age promontory fort) and 5 (the Romano-British forger). Coygan is important as revealing a clear break between these two occupations it remains to be seen whether this will prove to be true of the other promontory forts which produce Roman sherds or coins. The structures relating to phase 4 are the defences; presumably, houses were built on sill beams above ground level, leaving no archaeological trace. The interpretation of the phase 4 gates seems unsatisfactory. It implies timber gates 10 feet and 12-1 2 feet wide, hanging from single posts set some 21 feet into the ground. The gates must have been solid, and at least 8 feet high, in view of the strength of the defences. Such gates can scarcely have been supported in the manner suggested and re-interpretation seems essential. At the north gate at least double gates are likely. The Roman occupation-dated 270 to 300 on numismatic grounds, but probably to be extended to c. 310 or a little later on the ceramic evidence- revealed four timber structures. The most important was a rectilinear