The site of the former village of Margam, lies at 30m above OD, The village seems to have been a post-medieval foundation, established alongside a road which ran westward from the gateway of the monastery. An estate map of 1813 shows the positions of the houses while the early nineteenth-century appearance of the village is recorded on the Delamotte painting of Margam, now in the National Museum of Wales. In the mid-nineteenth century the houses were cleared away and the site incorporated in to gardens.
Excavations by the Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust in 1976-7 revealed remains that were very fragmentary due to cultivation disturbance. A village street consisting of a hollow way about 0.75m deep was traced for a considerable distance from east to west. It had a succession of stone surfaces and was flanked, in its final phase, by a cobbled pavement. Remains of several buildings were also found.
Source:
Extract from RCAHMW (1982), Glamorgan Inventory vol.III (ii), p.219-20.

RCAHMW, 2 July 2015