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Project Overview
Photos: Clearing the east wall of the masonry tower;
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| On October 25, 1999 William B. Barr and Associates
of Batesburg-Leesville, South Carolina was commissioned by the Celtic Legacy Foundation of
Wimberley, Texas to perform a site survey and assessment of a multi-component historic
site in southeastern Wales, United Kingdom. Initial investigations of the site, which
covers approximately 2.03 ha (5.0 ac), began on November 2, 1999. Present studies will
focus on the survey and recordation of the site’s cultural resources. In addition,
intensive investigations will focus on a Roman garrison tower, and its subsequent
evolution into an eighteenth/nineteenth century domestic dwelling and early twentieth
century livestock barn. Previous assessments, conducted in 1996, suggest that the site
contains components representative of "continuous occupation of the locality over a
period of at least four millennia " (Mason 1996:3). In addition to the masonry
structure known as the "tower", the site also contains a Neolithic Period
"Gallery Type" tomb, a sacred well dating to the Iron Age, a segment of a
Roman Period road, and a masonry structure referred to as the "Christian chapel"
(Mason 1996:3-16).
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Note: These investigations are ongoing,
and updates will be posted as time permits. Assessments made during the course of
this survey are preliminary, and may change upon the recovery of further data. |
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