A ditch and banked circular enclosure, c.14m internal and 25-6m overall diameter, with a sub-rectangular, ditched and banked enclosure, its N part obscured, c.36m N-S by 27m, on the E; castle thought to have been disused by later 12th C., the land being granted/exchanged with Neath Abbey, 1154-84 (see Nprn18739 - Gelligarn Grange).
Source: RCAHMW 1991 Glamorgan III.1a 'the Earlier Castles', CR8 101-2.
J.Wiles 08.10.04
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application/pdfBMA - Black Mountains Archaeology CollectionReport from an Archaeological Field Evaluation of Vale View Farm, St Mary Hill, Vale of Glamorgan, carried out by Black Mountains Archaeology in 2019. Report No. 176.
