The Celtic World (Routledge Worlds)

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Figure 35.6 Collfryn, Mont.: iron age features. (Source: Britnell 1989.)

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round-house associated with second-century BC Malvernian pottery appears to
represent something more than seasonal occupation on moorland at N ant y
Griafolen, Brenig (Denbs. (Lynch 1993: 159-61).
In south-east Wales non-hillfort settlement is largely constrained to the lowlands
of Glamorgan and Gwent, though pastoral enclosures occupy upland margins. Most
of the investigated settlements belong to the LPRIA. Some, such as Mynydd Bychan
(Savory 1954, 1956), have a defensive potential, as does the second-century BC to
first-century AD rectilinear hilltop enclosure at Cae Summerhouse (Davies 1973a,
1982; Robinson 1988: xvi-xvii), now seen to be bivallate. A similar situation pertains

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