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Archaeological Notes Kilvey Hill, Swansea A watching brief was undertaken on behalf of the BBC during building work on an extension to a transmitting station sited on the highest point of Kilvey Hill. Two round cairns (SS 6724 9402 and SS 6731 9395) are sited close to the transmitting station. Nothing of archeological interest was revealed during the watching brief. However, the remains of a probable stone cist, 0.8m. by 0.6m., were recorded about 1 m. to the south-west of the former Ordnance Survey triangulation point. K. Murphy Dyfed Archeological Trust Bwlch-y-Clawdd, Rhondda (SS 9390 9460) A field evaluation in advance of the construction of an enlarged car park and viewing area was undertaken for Rhondda Borough Council. No specific archeological remains were found, but the site was covered by a blanket peat, up to 0.76m. thick, which overlay a gleyed podzol soil. It is intended that these deposits will be sampled for the analysis of fossil pollen. Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust Worcester Place, Swansea (SS 6569 9312) A second stage of evaluation work was undertaken for Swansea City Council, A single trench was cut in the upper car park at Worcester Place in order to investigate the results of the earlier ground-based radar probing survey. Remains of the castle, represented by two walls and a floor surface, were found about 0.5m. below the present ground surface at the north end of the evaluation trench. These remains were sealed by a garden soil, above which houses of mid-nineteenth- century origin had been constructed. The cellars of other nineteenth-century houses had destroyed all earlier deposits in the southern half of the evaluation trench to a depth of 2.3m. Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust NOTES 1 See Morgannwg, XXXVIH (1994), 122 for a report on the work carried out in 1994.