Harold's Hunting Lodge

Harold�s House, Portskewett NGR ST 499 881

Pass through the village, turn right after the church and park alongside with gated access into green field.
A small flat-topped promontory projected out into the Caldicot Level. A small Norman chapel stands alongside a green field with the stone footings known as Harold�s House. Its name derives from a reference in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle to Harold Godwinnson (later King Harold) building a house here in 1065, almost immediately destroyed by the Welsh. Excavations by Time Team in 2007 showed that the site had been settled from the late 11th � early 14th centuries, but the footings were of a masonry tower house of the 12th century and manorial buildings of the Deneband family of the 13th century. The palaeochannel around the base of the site would have been a tidal creek, deep enough for medieval ships to beach, giving the village its name.


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