ST CLEARS CASTLE;BANC-Y-BEILI;RHYD-Y-GORS

Site Details

NPRN
105023
Map Reference
SN21NE
Grid Reference
SN28091542
Unitary (Local) Authority
Carmarthenshire
Old County
Carmarthenshire
Community
St Clears
Type of Site
MOTTE
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Medieval

Site Description

NAR SN21NE8

Earthworks thought to represent the castle, recorded as destroyed, 1215-16, associated with a borough, first mentioned in 1248: an oval mound, some 48m east-west by 38m, rising 12.2m to a level summit, some 15m by 10m, is set above a rectangular bailey enclosure, some 70m by 45m, defined by incomplete scarp lines, laid out on the south; these castle works are thought to have been integrated into, or subsumed by what appears to have been a borough enclosure (see Nprn105024).

J.Wiles 23.03.05