Welsh Journals

""hill-slope" earthwork on Llanmadoc Hill in Gower, finding, some evidence to support the Early Iron Age date suggested for it, and Mr. Howard Thomas found a few small sherds of Early Iron Age character on what appears to have been an open settlement site intersected by foundation trenches for a new building on the north-western outskirts of Barry (National Grid, 107686). Field-surveys by the writer, starting from air-photo- graphs, have brought to light some more virtually unrecorded earthworks. The most interesting of these is a double-banked, roughly circular "hill-slope" enclosure within less than a mile of the Cardiff-Cowbridge road, near Llantrithyd House (National Grid, 038732). The enclosure is about 250 feet in diameter internally it has been badly damaged by recent ploughing, but the banks would originally have been of moderate strength, larger than those of the Mynydd Bychan earthwork, Llysworney, but not of the scale of a large hill-fort. The entrance now appears as a simple gap on the north-west with a bank running off from its south side towards the edge of the field. Another, smaller enclosure of the same type, but single-banked and built on the edge of a scarp flanking the valley of the Thaw, has been located north-east of St. Mary Church (National Grid, 005722). A third earthwork, a short distance east of Llantrithyd Place (National Grid, 045727) is probably Mediaeval. H. N. SAVORY. II. ROMAN AND POST-ROMAN GLAMORGAN EXCAVATIONS AT DINAS POWIS HILL-FORT A final campaign of excavation was carried out at the Dinas Powis hillfort (Morgannwg, 1957, pp. 5 5-6), with the aid of generous grants from several sources including the Welsh Church Fund of Glamorgan County Council, the Board of Celtic Studies and the Cambrian Archaeological Association. Work was done in the central area of the fort; on the north- east comer, overlooking Michaelston-le-Pit; and on the defences.