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Cefn Morfudd, Enclosures

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NPRN90558
Map ReferenceSS79NE
Grid ReferenceSS7856097190
Unitary (Local) AuthorityNeath Port Talbot
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityTonna
Type Of SiteENCLOSURE
PeriodPost Medieval
Description
1. Group of 8 square enclosures of variable size, as recorded on RC oblique air photographs.

2. Two groups of square - subrectangular ditched & banked enclosures, 13 overall (Nprn401522-401534), set on a W-facing ledge on Cefn Morfudd, from 13-40m across, the banks being on average 3.0m wide & 0.8m high, the ditches 2.0m wide & 0.4m deep; two examples show remains of drystone revetting (Nprn401526, 401528), three being counterscarped (Nprn401522-3, 401528): these features, rejected as Roman practice works & appearing to be of no great antiquity although earlier than the current field boundaries, have been suggested to have been 'bee gardens', being similar to examples in the New Forest.

Sources: Os495card; SS79NE14;
RCAHMW 1976 (Glamorgan I.2), 103-4;
RCAHMW 1982 (Glamorgan III.2), 365-6 [M24-36].

J.Wiles 11.10.04