During the period of Norman consolidation in south Wales following the conquest of Glamorgan by Robert Fitz Hamon, Welsh resistance continued in the hill country. A skirmish near Neath in 1088 checked Norman expansion west along the south Wales coast. The Neath valley was a persistent contested area between the Norman lords of Glamorgan and the Welsh of Deheubarth throughout the late eleventh and twelfth centuries.
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