LLANTWIT MAJOR, GRANGE
Site Details
- NPRN
- 307122
- Map Reference
- SS96NE
- Grid Reference
- SS96546867
- Unitary (Local) Authority
- The Vale of Glamorgan
- Old County
- Glamorgan
- Community
- Llantwit Major
- Type of Site
- GRANGE
- Broad Class
- Agriculture and Subsistence
- Period
- Medieval
Site Description
Llantwit Major Grange was a grange of Tewkesbury Abbey from the early 12th century to 1539. It consists of a series of enclosures measuring c.300m NNW-SSE by at most 88m, defined by scarps or banks and ditches, extending north-south on the west of the Ogney Brook.
It was excavated in 1912-14 and 1937.
(sources: RCAHMW 1982 Glamorgan III.2, 299-303.
Includes:
Dovecote (Nprn37592)
Gatehouse (Nprn307455)
Tithebarn (Nprn307457).
Associated with:
St Illtyd's church (Nprn171).
J.Wiles 18.12.02
