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undertook to be Secretary of the Committee, if, indeed, it did not demand 
his undivided attention. It would be difficult to find anyone who 
could spare the time and energy devoted to this Committee by the late 
Secretary, Mr. J. Gray. The Committee have therefore reluctantly 
come to the conclusion that they could not undertake the task, but 
recommend that if any suitable investigator becomes available the Section 
should consider favourably the formation of a new Committee to render 
assistance to the project. The work of the former Anthropometric 
Committee of the Association has become so well known that it would 
materially aid any future inquiry to be conducted under the egis of the 
Association. 
Excavations on Roman Sites in Britain.—Report of the Com- 
mittee, consisting of Professor Ripazway (Chairman), Pro- 
fessor R. C. Bosanquet (Secretary), Dr. T. AsHBy, Mr. 
WILLOUGHBY GARDNER, and Professor J. Lu. Myrss, ap- 
pointed to co-operate with Local Committees in Excavations 
on Roman Sites in Britain. 
Tuis Committee was reappointed in September 1912, to co-operate 
with the Abergele Antiquarian Association in the exploration of the 
hill-fort in Parc-y-meirch Wood, Kinmel Park, Denbighshire. 
In recent years several hill-forts in North Wales have been investi- 
gated: (1) Tre’r Ceiri in Carnarvonshire, where sixty-four huts were 
excavated in 1903 and 1906 by the Cambrian Archeological Associa- 
tion. (2) Pen-y-gaer, near Llanbedr-y-cenin, Carnarvonshire, ex- 
amined by the Nant Conwy Antiquarian Society in 1905. (3) Pen- 
y-corddyn Mawr, near Llanddulas, Denbighshire, examined by the 
Abergele Antiquarian Association in 1905-9. (4) Braich-y-ddinas on 
Penmaenmawr Mountain, Carnarvonshire, where a survey, accom- 
panied by excavation, is being made for the Cambrian Archeological 
Association. 
Reports on (1), (2), and (4), by Mr. Harold Hughes and others, and 
on (2) and (3) by Mr. Willoughby Gardner, have appeared in ‘ Archeo- 
-logia Cambrensis,’? and have furnished data for comparing the methods 
of construction used in these forts and determining the periods during 
which they were occupied. The fact which directly concerns this 
Committee is that three of them yielded Roman pottery: Tre’r Ceiri 
and Braich-y-ddinas, which are village-sites with numerous hut-circles, 
producing much more than Pen-y-corddyn, which was rather a refuge 
fort, bearing marks of hasty construction and demolition. 
Similar evidence of occupation in Roman times was recorded in 
1850 by Mr. W. Wynne Foulkes for three of the native forts which 
crown the heights of the Clwyd range on the borders of Flint and 
* Sixth Series. (1) Tre’r Ceiri, iv. 1 and vii. 38. (2) Pen-y-gaer, vi. 241. 
(3) Pen-y-corddyn, x. 79 (4) Braich-y-ddinas, xii. 169 and xiii. 353. The 
work at Tre’r Ceiri was done by the Rev. S. Baring Gould and Mr. R. Burnard 
in 1903, by Professor Boyd Dawkins, Col. L. W. Morgan, and Mr. Harold 
Hughes in 1906. 
