Welsh Roundhouses: Site Data

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Site name Llandysul, Cwm Meudwy
Site number 139
Unitary Authority Ceredigion
Easting 240350
Northing 241950
References Murphy 2003; Murphy & Evans 2004 [View Bibliography]
Other sources PRN 49168
Year excavated 2003
Earliest approx. date for settlement -400
Latest approx. date for settlement 350
Site type nucleated / enclosed
Interpretation comments Area A with three ring ditches (IA radiocarbon), area B with palisaded enclosure, four posters, pits and postholes. Roundhouses only possible entrance postholes, 2 at NE and 4 at NW (no rel. here with trench). Pits 44 and 45 could be house door. 144 and 145 outside enclsoure could be house door. Many pits with Neolithic ceramics, environmental remains. Could be IA enclosure, 4 poster and houses and Neo earlier activity, or a Neolithic enclosure.


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