Welsh Journals

Wrinston During the Spring of 1976 fieldwork was undertaken at the site of the deserted village of Wrinston, South Glamorgan (ST 135 726). Earthworks on the periphery of the present farmstead were sur- veyed, and identified as the boundaries of former crofts. Several of the croft areas had recently been ploughed, and sherds of medieval and post-medieval pottery were collected from the surface. Documentary evidence records that the village declined during the eighteenth century. In the early nineteenth century only one farmstead and a few cottages remained. A full report on these researches will be published in Trans. Car- diff Nats. Soc., 98. Michaelston-le-Pit A 13th-century land grant records the existence of a large stone standing by a track leading from Michaelston-le-Pit to Wrinston. (ST 144731). The writers discovered the stone in question to be part of a possible chamber tomb. The remains are, however, much damaged as the result of landscaping activity during the 18th cen- tury. Detailed survey work is now in progress. B. E. Vyner S. Wrathmell.