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) 81-83
MPI.
M. G. JARRETT