ON EXCAVATIONS ON ROMAN SITES IN BRITAIN. 201 



(2) Uriconmv% (Wroxeter). The scheme for the systematic excava- 

 tion of this Eoman town was laid before the Association at the Birming- 

 ham Meeting. The direction of the work is in the hands of Mr. J. P. 

 Bushe-Fox, who had previously worked with distinction at Corbridge 

 and at Hengistbury Head. Two detailed and well-illustrated Eeports 

 on the work of 1912 and 1913 have been issued by the Society of 

 Antiquaries, and that for 1914 is in the press ; the appended statement 

 gives an interesting summary of the results gained during these three 

 seasons in an undertaking that may fairly be described as of national 

 importance. The Committee notes with satisfaction the rapid progress 

 that is being made in determining the sequence and dating of Eomano- 

 British pottery, thanks to the careful records of stratification kept in 

 recent years at Corbridge, Wroxeter, and other sites. 



The Committee asks for reappointment and for a renewal of its 

 grant. 



Reports to the Committee. 



I. 



Further Excavatio'us in Dinorhen, the ancient Hill Fort in Parc-y- 

 meirch Wood, Kinmel Park, Abergele, North Wales, during 1914. 



By WiLLOUGHBT GARDNER, F.S.A. 



The excavations in this h!ll-fort by the Abergele Antiquarian 

 Association and the Cambrian Archaeological Association, recorded 

 in Reports of the British Association, 1912, pp. 611-12, and 

 1913, pp. 231-36, were continued during the summer of 1914. The 

 excavators were again greatly assisted by a Research Committee of 

 Section H of the British Association, whose Secretary, Professor R. C. 

 Bosanquet, spent two days upon the site, and by the Association's grant 

 towards the cost. Work occupied about six weeks ; ten labourers and a 

 foreman were employed, as before, and much help was given by 

 amateur assistants. To Colonel Hughes, the owner of the site, warm 

 thanks are again due for continued interest and assistance in numerous 

 ways. 



Operations were first directed to the massive dry masonry wall 

 discovered in 1913, running crosswise in the thickness of the main 

 rampart, 18 feet to the E. of the S.E. entrance. As the rampart 

 stood 9 feet high and was 28 feet thick at this point from facing wall 

 in front to casing wall at back, and both these walls were buried 

 behind a further thickness of debris, the work was laborious. The 

 bulk of the rampart consisted of rubble-stone, but approaching the 

 ground-level many large slabs and roughly squared stones were 

 encountered near the cross-wall. In places, especially towards 

 the inner side of the rampart, quantities of burnt stone and 

 calcined lime were also found, with fragments of charcoal here and 

 there. At the foot of the wall a well-gravelled surface was uncovered, 

 trodden hard like a road. The cross-wall was laid bare to its foundation, 

 standing 8 feet high for a straight length of 16 feet. At its outer end 

 this massive wall was found to be cut at right angles by the later built 

 facing wall of the rampart, continuous with the side wall of the pre- 



