The Romans and Ridgeway hillforts; Moel y Gaer Bodfari, Denbighshire, North Wales
Channel: Recording Archaeology
Date: 09/12/2017

The excavation of three nearby hillforts on the Oxfordshire Ridgeway, Uffington Castle, Segsbury Camp and Alfred’s Castle, has shown detailed evidence for their differing uses during the Iron Age but also major differences in the way they were utilised during the Romano-British period. This paper will explore these differences and try to explain why two of the sites show differing forms of continuity of use and the other seems to have been completely ignored.
Recent work at the small Welsh hillfort of Moel y Gaer Bodfari in the Clwydian hills will be briefly described including a range of geophysical techniques and LiDAR processing. Excavation has shown limited evidence for internal use of the site but detailed evidence for the construction and phasing of the stone built ramparts.

Gary Lock