Goldcliff Priory

In the 1950s, the Monmouthshire writer Hando noted the outlines of buildings visible as grass patterns or crop marks,[2] but by the 1970s the only remaining structural element was part of a cellar in the farm house.

[1] Royal Commission aerial photography in 2010 found evidence of the foundations of a large structure consisting of a central block with wings, measuring 37 metres (121 ft) by 11 metres (36 ft), and set adjacent to a bivallate earthwork enclosure.

Untypically, the monks wore white habits, unlike the usual black attire favoured by the Benedictines.

Fred Hando recorded that 20th-century farmers in the area ascribed the land reclamation and the building of the "Monksditch" to the priory.

In 1334 the prior Phillip Gopillarius ("Philip de Gopylers") was charged, along with other clergy and laymen from the area, with stealing the cargo from a vessel wrecked at Goldcliff.