Llancadle Shrunken Village, Settlement Earthworks

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NPRN15340
Map ReferenceST06NW
Grid ReferenceST0350068150
Unitary (Local) AuthorityThe Vale of Glamorgan
Old CountyGlamorgan
CommunityLlancarfan
Type Of SiteSETTLEMENT
PeriodMedieval
Description
The Llancadle site contains the earthworks of a shrunken village. They survive for approximately 360m x 200m in pasture sloping to the south-east. It comprises of a central north-west/south-east hollow-way running south of a series of level platforms and terraces, approximately 70m x 70m. There may also be lynchets to the south-west and the north.

The site is thought to have been abandoned by the 17th Century.

RCAHMW, December 2010