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Enw'r Safle: Llanmaes, Llantwit Major

Nodiadau: Burial. Archaeological excavation of a cremation burial was undertaken in 2005, from which prehistoric pottery, cremated human bone, worked flint and copper alloy (bronze) fragments were recovered. A gold bead, a decorated bone bead and small pottery fragments were found during subsequent sieving of the soil. The pit was located beside the western edge of an Iron Age midden and cut into the natural limestone bedrock. The pit was itself cut into by a post-hole belonging to a Bronze Age timber roundhouse, around 6-7m in diameter, therefore clearly showing the pit to be stratigraphically earlier than the building. The pit was located beside and beneath the south east facing porched entrance of the roundhouse. The association of the bead with pottery stylistically datable to the Middle Bronze Age give an indication for the date of the bead. The Middle Bronze Age post hole that cut into the cremation pit was radiocarbon dated to approximately 1300-1100 BC, meaning the cremation must be earlier than this.