CASTELL PANT-MAWR; CASTELLAN, SETTLEMENT

Site Details

NPRN
303571
Map Reference
SN67NW
Grid Reference
SN61147565
Unitary (Local) Authority
Ceredigion
Old County
Cardiganshire
Community
Llanilar
Type of Site
HILLFORT
Broad Class
Defence
Period
Iron Age?

Site Description

NAR SN67NW4

1. A rather curving L-plan bank, or rampart defines the north & west sides of an enclosure, about 28-30m across, resting elsewhere on steep natural scarps, towards the tip of a south-facing promontory above the Ystwyth valley; to the north a ditch seperates the rampart from an oval mound, some 30m east-west by 16m.

J.Wiles 29.01.02

2. A field visit to this site on 4th April 2003 examined the earthworks and could not reconcile them with those of an Iron Age fort. They appeared to represent a low motte or ringwork on the upslope side, separated by a very deep rock-cut ditch to the south, and then a further defensive bank or modified outcrop beyond. The earthworks appear to represent those of a medieval earthwork castle.

T Driver, RCAHMW. 5th May 2004.