| Title: |
Excavations at Llanmaes, near Llantwit Major, South Glamorgan
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| Issue: |
Post-Medieval Archaeol 30 |
| Series: |
Post-Medieval Archaeology
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| Volume: |
30
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| Page Start/End: |
187 - 233 |
| Biblio Note |
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| Publication Type: |
Journal
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| Abstract: |
Rescue excavations in the small village of Llanmaes investigated an area of earthworks indicating the presence of several buildings. Medieval evidence was largely confined to finds. Three late-seventeenth-century properties were examined; it is possible that they represent a planned development on the east side of the village green in response to population expansion in the Vale of Glamorgan. The buildings are of simple two-roomed plan, and would appear to be tenements of low status. One of the buildings produced evidence of smithying. A large group of metal finds of agricultural and domestic use was found, as was a closely-dated assemblage of wine bottles; a large midden deposit on the north edge of the site contained a very large group of post-medieval pottery. The buildings were abandoned by the end of the end of the eighteenth century, presumably following rationalization of the local settlement morphology and farming. Thus the site represents a short-lived expansion of low-status rural housing at the time of the `Great Rebuilding'. Includes specialist reports on |
| Year of Publication: |
1997
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| Subjects / Periods: |
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| Midden (Auto Detected Subject) |
| Eighteenth Century (Auto Detected Temporal) |
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SHERD
(Object England)
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| Note: |
[OS SS 982 697]
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| Source: |
BIAB
(The British & Irish Archaeological Bibliography (BIAB))
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| Created Date: |
16 Aug 2005 |
