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Denbigh. The inference drawn at that time was that these sites had 
been occupied ‘ by the Romans.’ It has become increasingly plain in 
recent years that ‘Roman’ pottery, both Continental ‘ Samian’ and 
coarser home-made wares, was used by the natives throughout the 
province of Britain, and in some cases also outside its limits; and, as 
much of this pottery can be dated, it may be expected to furnish a 
useful index of the distribution of the native population at various 
stages of the Roman occupation. The excavations carried out in 
recent years by Mr. H. Neil Baynes at Din Lligwy, on the north-east 
coast of Anglesey, furnish an admirable example of the amount of 
information as to native culture under Roman influence which may be 
recovered from a fortified village-site.? 
From this point of view, the fort of Parc-y-meirch presents a most 
promising field of inquiry. The excavation begun in 1912 by the 
Abergele Antiquarian Association was originally suggested by the 
Cambrian Archeological Association, through its President, Professor 
Boyd Dawkins, and has received generous support both from the 
national society and from subscribers in the district. But the excep- 
tional size of the fortifications—the main rampart rises fifty feet ver- 
tically above the bottom of its encircling ditch—and the complexity of 
the stratification, due to more than one destruction and rebuilding, 
make it a very costly site to dig. The grant of 15]. allotted to this 
Committee has been spent in wages, supplementing the funds raised 
from other sources, and has made possible a more extended examina- 
tion of the ditches and gates. The work has been superintended by 
Mr. Willoughby Gardner, whose account of this season’s work is 
printed as an appendix to this report. A full record has been made 
in the form of plans, sections, and photographs. Professor Arthur 
Keith has kindly undertaken to describe the human remains found 
at more than one point in the rock-cut ditch. 
The Committee asks to be reappointed and applies for a renewal 
of its grant. 
APPENDIX TO COMMITTEER’S REPORT. 
Further Excavations in the Ancient Hill Fort in Parc-y-meirch Wood, 
Kinmel Park, Abegele, North Wales, during 19138. By 
WituoucHsy Garpner, F.L.S. 
At the Dundee Meeting last September an account was given of some 
excavations made, by kind permission of the owner, Colonel Hughes, 
in this native hill fort by the Abergele Antiquarian Society and the 
Cambrian Archeological Association, as printed in abstract in the 
‘Report of the British Association,’ 1912, pages 611-12. This year 
further work has been done by the same societies during six weeks 
upon this extensive site, by help of ten labourers and several amateur 
assistants, and aided by Colonel Hughes in very many material ways. 
Indeed, exploration of this wooded hill would have been impossible had 
not Colonel Hughes most generously allowed trees to be cut down 
whenever necessary and himself lent tackle forthe work. This 
2 Arch. Camb., VI., viii. 183. 
