FIVE POINTED OAK PILES EACH OF AVERAGE LENGTH 0.7M SET VERTICALLY SOME 0.3M INTO CLAY (THE REMAINING 0.4M BEING SUBMERGED BY PEAT). SET IN A Y PATTERN AT 0.9M INTERVALS. SIMILAR PILES REPORTED IN AREA THOUGH NOT RECORDED (SEE RER 01) AND THE WHOLE PROBABLY REPRESENTS SOME FORM OF SETTLEMENT. FOUND DURING PEAT CUTTING OPERATIONS BEFORE 1935. (LS 3) Within 'an extensive natural hollow' below the peat in a bog at CEFN BLAEN Y NANT, TRALLWM,2 at a height of 500 m above O.D. in the ABERGWESYN area, peat-cutters found sharpened wooden piles of oak and birch during the 1920s and earlier.2 Some of the piles were apparently arranged in more or less parallel lines, buried about 1 m below the surface, some with their points driven through to the underlying clay. No other artefacts were found and some of the wood was given to the National Museum.3 It has been suggested that the piles may represent enclosures used in stock-raising during the later Bronze Age4 and a date of c. 1000 B.C. was at one time suggested.5 Peat is no longer won from this area which is today overgrown. 1. O.S. Card SN 85 N.E. 2. H.N.Jerman, B.B.C.S. 3 (1922), p. 282. 3. Grimes, Prehist.Wales, (2nd ed.) p. 232. 4. H.N.Savory, Prehist. Brecks, (I), p.114. 5. H.N.Jerman, Antiq.Jnl 15 (1935), pp 68-9,(illus.) RCAHMW, 1995 - Draft Inventory description. Previous records of 'Y' shaped timber settings. All that remains are small stumps of wood (Length 20cm) set vertically in the exposed base of peat cuttings (barely perceptible, and possibly not the actual site). J.Bonsall, NT, 20/07/2002