Welsh Journals

A.D. to the fourth century A.D. Iron Age pottery is very rare on all parts of the site. In plan, the inner enclosure at Cae Summerhouse is very similar to the embanked and ditched enclosure at Whitton Roman villa. Dr. M. G. Jarrett has already surmised that the bank and ditch forming a rectangular enclosure at Whitton might have been one of the earliest features on the site.10 Dating evidence for the construction of the defences at Whitton is not good, but it is very likely of late Iron Age or, less probably, of early Roman date. This dating agrees quite well with that obtained from one of the defence sections at Cae Summerhouse. It hardly seems likely that these two sites stand in isolation, and we may look forward to the discovery of more defended sites of this type in Glamorgan. JEFFREY L. DAVIES. 2. Excavations at Caer Dynnaf, Llanblethian, Glam. 1965-1967 Excavations have taken place in the interior of the hillfort known as Caer Dynnaf (SO 984744) for three short seasons, beginning in 1965.11 The work was carried out as part of the author's research project into Romano-British native settlements in Wales. The site is situated on the eastern end of a ridge, 250 ft. above O.D., with a commanding view of the surrounding countryside. A system of small rectilinear enclosures occupies most of the western half of the 10 acre hillfort. These take the form of depressions and terraces on the steeply-sloping hillside, each terrace being bounded by a low bank. An associated trackway runs north-south through the enclosures, dividing them into two portions. Most of the work was concentrated on the most south-easterly and best preserved of the terraces. A section through the enclosure bank on the south, showed that it was rubble-built of limestone blocks with a revetment of 10 Morgannwg 10 (1966), 62-63. 11 Archaeology in Wales No. (1965), 10; No. 6 (1966), 13.