Welsh Journals

contained a large stone-lined oven. This outbuilding, together with a reconstruction of the west wing, probably provided a detached brewhouse cum bakehouse for the adjacent eighteenth-century farmhouse. Further rebuilding took place in the nineteenth century to accommodate a granary and cowshed. The manor house was probably built by Alexander St John (fl. 1429-74), replacing a nearby moated homestead of twelfth-century origin. Alexander, the second son of Sir John St John (died 1424) of Fonmon Castle, founded a cadet branch that lived at Highlight for eight generations until the extinction of the male line in 1728. The earliest reference to the house occurs in a lawsuit of c.1544 which mentions a 'manor place or mansion howse called Yughaloley'. A document of 1653 mentions a dovecot attached to the premises, and in the Hearth Tax Assessment of 1670 the house is returned as containing four hearths. A Kemys-Tynte estate map of 1767 shows that the manor house had been partially demolished by that date, and replaced by a new farmhouse built adjacent to the south. H. J. Thomas CRESTA, MICHAELSTON-SUPER-ELY, CARDIFF (ST 1181 7621) A programme of archaeological field evaluation was undertaken at Cresta, which lies within the bounds of the shrunken medieval village of Michaelston-super-Ely.13 No structural remains belonging to the medieval period were identified, but a shallow medieval feature of industrial use, possibly a corn drier, was excavated. The remains of a much slighted building, probably occupied during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, were also recorded. Steve Sell and Adam Yates Glamorgan-Gwent Archaeological Trust (Contracts Division) Post-Medieval BAGLAN BAY PIPELINE, NEATH PORT TALBOT A watching brief was undertaken during the stripping of topsoil and trenching for the General Electric Baglan Bay pipeline, which stretched for 11 kilometres between Cefn Morfudd, Neath (SS 795