Rheola Forest Roman Fortlet

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NPRN301353
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Disgrifiad
A round-angled, rectangular earthwork enclosure, 10.5m by 8.5m, obscurred by forestry operations on the north-west, laid out against the Roman Sarn Helen road between Neath and Coelbren (NPRN 304620). Excavation in 1986 (Chouls 1993) did not produce any diagnostic material or evidence for internal structures other than a possible hearth and a stone path from the entrance, which faces towards the Roman road. A similar enclosure (NPRN 93165) lies to the north-east.

Sources: RCAHMW 1976 Glamorgan Inventory I.2, 104 (No. 752);
Chouls 1993 (Archaeology in Wales 33), 59-60.

J.Wiles, RCAHMW, 17 August 2004