LLYSSUN CASTLE

Manylion y Safle

NPRN
306529
Cyfeirnod Map
SJ01SW
Cyfeirnod Grid
SJ03161007
Ardal Cyngor
Powys
Hen Sir
Montgomeryshire
Cymuned
Llanerfyl
Math o Safle
MOTTE AND BAILEY
Dosbarth Cyffredinol
Defence
Cyfnod
Medieval

Disgrifiad o´r Safle

Llyssun Castle is a motte and bailey castle resting on a scarp above the Banwy floodplain. The ditched motte is c.20m in diameter and 4.0m high, with a summit only 4.0m in diameter, with the bailey to the west represented by a sub-rectangular scarped platform, 16m by 12m.

The placename 'Llyssum' may be significant.

(source Os495card; SJ01SW5)
RCAHMW AP94-CS 1768
RCAHMW AP945180/41-2
J.Wiles 24.09.02