GRAIG FOEL RING MOTTE

Manylion y Safle

NPRN
91945
Cyfeirnod Map
SO30SE
Cyfeirnod Grid
SO36950102
Ardal Cyngor
Monmouthshire
Hen Sir
Monmouthshire
Cymuned
Llanbadoc
Math o Safle
RINGWORK
Dosbarth Cyffredinol
Defence
Cyfnod
Medieval

Disgrifiad o´r Safle

SAM No MM335

A partial castle ringwork is located on a steep-sided spur projecting from high ground above the flood-plain of the Usk. A roughly semi-circular area measuring 16.5m (NW-SE) by 13m is bounded on the NE by the scarp edge, the top of a steep, wooded slope, and elsewhere by a bank 10m-12m wide and up to 3m high above an external rock-cut ditch 1.5m deep and 2m wide at base. Internally the bank is 1.5m high on the NW but only 0.4m on the SE where the slope of the nose of the ridge steepens markedly. A 4.5m gap on the SE between the end of the bank and the scarp edge is probably the site of the entrance.

visited: D.K.Leighton 18 February 1999