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funded by Neath Borough Council. The range of early post-Roman material is similar to that produced by the excavations at Dinas Powys and a very limited number of other Dark Age sites in South Wales. The presence of pottery of twelfth-/ thirteenth-century date would seem to indicate occupation of the site at the time of the construction of the castle mentioned in the Register of Neath Abbey. This, combined with the site's s nature and location, strengthens the case for identifying this as the site of Morgan's castle. Hen Gastell is one of only five Welsh-built castles in Glamorgan identified by RCAHM: Wales, P. Wilkinson for the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust NOTE 1 RCAHM: Wales, Inventory ofthe Ancient Monuments in Glamorgan, Vol. Ill, Pt. la: The Early Castles (HMSO, 1991), pp. 135-52. NEWTON MOOR, COWBRIDGE, SOUTH GLAMORGAN In April 1991 Mr J. Sallam was prospecting in a field near Newton Moor to the north of Cowbridge, when he discovered a silver penannular brooch and pin of seventh-/ eighth-century A.D. type (Fig. 1). Geophysical surveying was undertaken in June of the area (60 m by 60 m) in the vicinity of the find spot by Mr M. Hamilton on behalf of the National Museum of Wales. Irregular high and low resistance features were identified and interpreted as outcrops of underlying natural and natural channels in the moor. This information enabled the National Museum of Wales to position two trenches to determine the nature of deposition and to provide evidence for the Treasure Trove inquest. 2 Figure 1. The Newton Moor brooch hoop prior to conservation, showing filigree wire decorating each terminal (scale in mm).