NAR SH56SW2

A banked ditched rectangular enclosure with rounded corners, about 28m north-east to south-west and at least as long. The site was recognised and trenched by Wheeler in 1921 (1922). Finds of early second century pottery prompted interpretation as a signal station. A more recent geophysical survey (Thompson 1995) showed indications of circular features within and it is likely that this is an enclosed native settlement.
If Wheeler's identification of 'fragments of greatly decomposed brick' (1922, 132) are accepted, it is possible that this was the site of a villa.

Sources: Wheeler in Archaeologia Cambrensis 77 (1922), 126-134
Nash Williams 'The Roman Frontier in Wales' first edition (1954), 27-8
RCAHMW Caernarvon. Inventory II (1960), 164 No. 1129
Jarrett 'The Roman Frontier in Wales', second edition (1969), 132
Thompson in Archaeology in Wales 35 (1995), 50

John Wiles 26.04.07

Now scheduled as a Roman signal station.
T. Driver, RCAHMW, 2013