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Goldcliff, Newport, Wales, Großbritannien



 


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Goldcliff (Welsh: Allteuryn) is a village and community parish to the south east of the city of Newport in South Wales. It lies within the Newport city boundaries in the historic county of Monmouthshire and the preserved county of Gwent.

History:

A considerable amount of archaeology has centred on Goldcliff and the intertidal region of the coast near the village has attracted archaeological interest. Goldcliff has notable evidence of occupation by the Silures.

Hidden in the laminated silts of the Severn estuary foreshore are 8,000-year-old (mesolithic) human footprints A report, published jointly by CBA and Cadw, was produced by Martin Bell and colleagues. Bell was instrumental in the discovery of the mesolithic footprints and in 2004 his work at Goldcliff featured on Channel 4's archaeological television programme Time Team. Further archaeological excavation has also been carried out by Martin Locock and colleagues prior to the introduction of the Newport Wetlands reserve, for example at Hill Farm.

Following gales and high tides in 1990, a total of eight Iron Age substantial rectangular buildings were discovered, over the course of several season's work, off the coast of the village. Radiocarbon dating dated the site to the second century BC. The buildings, which may have functioned as a short lived and specialised fishing site, were constructed from vertical posts bearing the marks of iron axes. Timbers from the excavation, which was performed by St David's University College, Lampeter, have been conserved at Newport Museum.

A connection with Roman activity was firmly established with the discovery near Goldcliff Point in 1878 of the inscribed "Goldcliff Stone" recording the work of legionaries on a linear earthwork, presumably a sea wall. Further evidence of occupation was found when ash pits were dug at Nash during construction of the Uskmouth Power Station.

Goldcliff was originally owned by the native princes of Wales, but was taken from Owain ap Caradog (also known as Owain Wan) son of the last king of Gwent, Caradog ap Gruffydd, by the Norman nobleman Robert de Chandos who, shortly before 1113, founded a priory there.

The higher coastal parts of the area were certainly reclaimed by the late-11th and early-12th century when Goldcliff and Nash were granted to the Benedictine priory. Lower-lying areas inland were enclosed and drained by the 13th and 14th century.

Goldcliff, as "Goldcliffe", and nearby Nash are two of the few villages to appear on the Cambriae Typus map of 1573.

Main article: Goldcliff Priory

On the site of Hill Farm, situated on a prominent knoll of high ground, south of the village and next to the sea, stood Goldcliff Priory. Founded in 1113 as a subject house of the Abbey of Bec in Normandy, it passed during the fifteenth century into the control of Tewkesbury Abbey and then of Eton College.

A small enclosure on Chapel Lane to the north of the present parish church, is thought to hold the remains of an ancient chapel, probably connected with the Priory. Also located off Chapel Lane, the farmhouse and barn at Great Newra Farm has Grade II listed buildings.

The quaint Congregational (later United Reformed Church) chapel near the junction of the Sea Wall Road, built in 1840 and restored in 1900–01, is now a private dwelling, but was still active as late as the 1980s.

Ort : Geographische Breite: 51.54331500000001, Geographische Länge: -2.91547300000002


Geburt

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Geburt    Personen-Kennung 
1 Sass, James Aeneas  8 Jun 1840Goldcliff, Newport, Wales, Großbritannien I173300
2 Sass, John  9 Apr 1837Goldcliff, Newport, Wales, Großbritannien I173299
3 Seys, Anne  13 Sep 1792Goldcliff, Newport, Wales, Großbritannien I173239
4 Seys, Cecilla  1 Okt 1786Goldcliff, Newport, Wales, Großbritannien I173237
5 Seys, Elizabeth  1787Goldcliff, Newport, Wales, Großbritannien I173238

Tod

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   Nachname, Taufnamen    Tod    Personen-Kennung 
1 Keene, Hannah  21 Jan 1890Goldcliff, Newport, Wales, Großbritannien I173298