Cof Cymru: National Historic Assets of Wales · Wales
Area of Shrunken Medieval Village
St. Donats, Vale of Glamorgan, Wales
The record
- Designation
- Scheduled monument
- Site type
- Shrunken Medieval Village
- Period
- Medieval
- Date of designation
- 8 January 1976
- Community
- St. Donats
- Unitary authority
- Vale of Glamorgan
- Country
- Wales
- Coordinates (centre of the scheduled area)
- 51.41371, -3.54452
- SAM number
- GM375
- Cadw record number
- 2908
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 consists of a shrunken village dating to the medieval period. This is a settlement where previous house sites are now unoccupied, but visible as earthworks, crop or soil marks. An extensive area of earthworks to the north-east of the present village of Marcross is bisected by the road from Marcross to Llantwit-Major. The well defined earthworks mark the site of a number of houses, house platforms and their associated gardens and trackways.
The monument is of national importance for its potential to enhance our knowledge of medieval settlement organisation. It retains significant archaeological potential, with a strong probability of the presence of associated archaeological features and deposits.
The scheduled area comprises the remains described and areas around them within which related evidence may be expected to survive.
Nearby in the register
- Free-standing Outbuilding at Village Farm incorporating remains of Marcross Castle and sited on SWAgriculture and Subsistenceunder 1 mi
- High Wall, comprising remains of Marcross Castle, bounding part of SW Farmyard of Village FarmDomesticunder 1 mi
- Churchyard Wall, Gatepiers and Gates to the Church of the Holy Trinity running along the roadReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
- Sundial in the Churchyard of the Church of the Holy TrinityReligious, Ritual and Funeraryunder 1 mi
Other entries of the same register within about three miles of this one, by straight line.