Welsh Journals

or cists grouped together under large barrows5 and in some cases have been accompanied by pottery which confirms their date. Most probably they belong to the people who lived in the ancient settle- ments which adjoined Burrows Well, and which were occupied in Early Iron Age and Roman times; they correspond to the crouched inhumations, without grave goods, which commonly occur in the filling of storage pits in settlements of this date in lowland Britain, and no doubt represent the indigenous peasant population of the district. No doubt the long destroyed cemetery on Ogmore Down nearby would have told us about the contemporary governing class, had it been accurately recorded at the time of its discovery and the finds preserved. H. N. Savory IRON AGE AND ROMAN PERIODS Cae Summerhouse, Tythegston EXCAVATIONS on the site of this Iron Age and Romano-British farmstead were resumed this summer after a six year interval, the excavation aims being threefold: the examination of the western entrance, the causeway across the southern defences, and the re- covery of the internal building sequence in the ploughed western portion of the enclosure. The last two aims were not fully realised because of a dearth of manpower, although relatively little in the way of internal structures escaped detection apart from an area occupied by the remains of a presumed eighteenth-century masonry building in the south-west corner. No important details concerning the pre-bank and ditch occupa- tion was forthcoming. Three postholes on the line of the later bank were related to the circular house and other features located in 1967, but no datable material was found in association with these. It now seems as though the main focus of this early phase of Iron Age occupation must lie wholly outside the southern defences. The enclosure ditch was examined at three points. On the south the ditch was of truncated V-shaped profile, and measured 3-50 m. 'Prehistoric Man in Wales and the West (ed. F. Lynch and C. Burgess), 131 f.