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COELBREN W. Glamorgan, Wales.

This Roman fort lies on the W margin of the Neath valley, beside the road from Neath to Brecon Gaer. It covers 2.1 ha, and its earthworks are clearly visible. Excavation revealed that the defenses were of turf, interlaced with timber, but failed to detect more than one phase in the structures. But the finds (now in the Museum of the Royal Institution of South Wales, Swansea) indicate occupation from ca. A.D. 75 to 140, so that rebuildings must have been necessary.


BIBLIOGRAPHY

W. L. Morgan, “Report on the excavations at Coelbren,” Archaeologia Cambrensis 62 (1907) 129-74; J. L. Davies in V. E. Nash-Williams, The Roman Frontier in Wales (2d ed. by M. G. Jarrett 1969) 81-83MPI.

M. G. JARRETT

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