Welsh Journals

Archaeological Notes PREHISTORIC PERIODS MEMBERS of the Rhondda Society, in close co-operation with Forestry Commission staff, have continued their surveillance of freshly ploughed areas of moorland in the neighbourhood of the Rhondda valleys and the finds which have been reported to the National Museum during the past years are too numerous to enumerate in detail, since they include some which were made in previous years and have only now been made available. The most striking of them is a large discoidal flint knife, with polished edge, which was found near the round cairn above Craig-y-Bwlch, Rhigos, and is only the second example of this Early Bronze Age type to be recorded from Glamorgan: the first was found a few years ago with human remains in the Tooth Cave, Ilston (Gower).1 Perhaps, how- ever, the most interesting feature of the recent harvest of flints is the number of petit tranchet derivatives which it contains-a late Neo- lithic type which hitherto seemed to be relatively rare on the Glamorgan uplands. The normal leaf-shaped type of Neolithic arrowhead has naturally appeared as well, and the general picture of relatively intense Neolithic activity in this area, formerly thought not to have been settled before the beginning of the Bronze Age, has been strengthened by the discovery of a Neolithic axe-head of flint, partially polished, buried in the surface of a track at SO 047015 on Mynydd Merthyr, Mountain Ash, and a polished stone adzehead, lying on a freshly ploughed surface at SO 029028, above Cwm-bach, Aberdare. Both these implements have been presented to the National Museum by Messrs. R. Dombrovskis and S. R. Jones of Aberdare (73.20H). During the spring P-C. Williams of Newton, Porthcawl reported to the National Museum of Wales the discovery of a crouched in- humation burial which had been disturbed by the extraction of sand 1 Bulletin of the Board of Celtic Studies, XXII, iii (1967), 279, Fig. 2.1.