Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Doghill Moated Site, Dyffryn
St. Nicholas and Bonvilston, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Moated Site
- Period
- Medieval
- Community
- St. Nicholas and Bonvilston
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.43930, -3.30681
- SAM number
- GM069
- Cadw record number
- 633
Slide toward Today to fade the historical sheet and see the modern map underneath.
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Shown on 5 historical map sheets, the earliest the 1636 "Cornubia : Devonia, Somersetus, Dorcestria, Wiltonia, Glocestria ..." (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries).
Cadw's description
Summary description and reason for designation
The following provides a general description of the Scheduled Ancient Monument.
The monument comprises the well-preserved remains of a moated site of probable early medieval date. It is situated within farmland at Dyffryn in the Vale of Glamorgan. The site comprises a central platform that is square on plan and measures c. 35m in length within a well-defined and distinct moat.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of early medieval defensive organisation. The monument forms an important element within the wider medieval context and the structure itself may be expected to contain archaeological information in regard to chronology, building techniques and functional detail.
The area to be scheduled comprises the remains described and an area around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive, as shown in red on the attached map.
Nearby in the register
- Well HouseDomesticunder 1 mi
- Vine Walk and KiosksGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Fountain to South of Dyffryn HouseGardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
- Fountain to South of Dyffryn House(partly in St Nicholas and Bonvilston Community)Gardens, Parks and Urban Spacesunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.