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'BRONZE SITE', CARDIFF INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT, VALE OF GLAMORGAN (ST 068 680) A field evaluation at the 'Bronze Site' Car Park, Cardiff International Airport was undertaken for Howse Cole Dyer. The work confirmed that a cropmark feature, originally identified by RCAHMW,4 related to a large ditch, which formed an oval enclosure in the central part of the site. A series of features excavated within this enclosure probably represent the entrance-porch of a roundhouse, and the assemblage of animal bone recovered also suggests domestic activity within the enclosure. The limited ceramic evidence indicates that the activity dates from the later prehistoric period. A linear feature outside this enclosure has been interpreted as a ditch, which may form part of a field system, and probably dates to the Roman period. Two parallel linear features in the south-east corner of the site are likely to be medieval in origin, and may form part of a trackway feature. Evidence was also found for the modern extraction of limestone on the site. J. Kate Howell Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust (Contracts Division) Roman DUFFRYN CELLWEN, COELBREN ROMAN FORT, NEATH PORT TALBOT (SN 859 107) A survey of the Roman auxiliary fort at Coelbren and its environs was undertaken in January 2001. The methodology included standard desk-based assessment techniques map regression and examination of documentary and aerial photographic sources coupled with other non-intrusive methods, such as geophysical survey (undertaken by Stratascan), a topographic survey and a new overflight which produced a series of large-scale oblique aerial photographs.5 Coelbren fort occupies an important strategic position within the military network, being situated at the head of the Dulais Valley, astride the Roman road of Sarn Helen, roughly halfway between the forts at Neath and Brecon Gaer. The fort was first investigated in 1906